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	In Sam We Trust
		Walton's Campo Chapote was not the sort of place likely to be featured on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous--just several battered trailers ringing a barbecue pit, with a few water wells, a dog kennel, a barn where he kept his truck and supplies, and the ice house, which was more of a shed, really.
		Walton had been commuting to Houston for medical care regularly since 1982, when he was diagnosed with hairy cell leukemia, a type of blood cancer that destroys the body's white blood cells.
		It would be tempting to assume that Walton felt driven to reexamine his life, to wonder whether, say, he should have slowed down sooner and spent more time with Helen and their children and grandchildren, or whether he should have been gentler with the many men he'd burned out in building his retailing empire.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/o/ortega-sam.html (4874 words)

	Biography- Sam Walton - AOL Research & Learn
		Sam Moore Walton was born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma, March 29, 1918.
		Walton avoided publicity about himself, preferring that his stores occupy the spotlight, and he took a direct role in the administration of those stores at all levels.
		Walton built his firm into the fastest growing and most influential force in the retail industry, with stores averaging an annual growth rate of more than 35 percent for more than a decade--a rate more than three times that of the retail industry in general.
	reference.aol.com /history/biography/_a/sam-walton/20050413141509990009 (1048 words)

	Business Biography
		Sam Walton grew up during the depression and knew that hard work and thrift were a way of life.
		Sam Walton was born on March 29, 1918 to Thomas Gibson and Nancy Lee Walton near Kingfisher, Oklahoma.
		Sam's job was to milk the family cow, bottle the milk, and then deliver the surplus of to customers and then went off to deliver newspapers afterwards.
	www.stfrancis.edu /ba/ghkickul/stuwebs/bbios/biograph/walton1.htm (2045 words)

	PBS - STORE WARS: Big Stores, History
		Walton borrowed some money from his father-in-law and opened a variety store after serving as an Army captain in World War II (mostly spent in California and Utah because he was declared unfit for service due to a heart problem).
		Inspired by workers he saw in a tennis ball factory in Korea, Walton introduced the famous "Wal-Mart Cheer" to employees, whom the company refers to as "associates." Walton's management style was popular with employees and helped to spur growth in the 1980s amidst complaints that the superstore was squelching traditional mom and pop stores.
		Sam Walton remained active in managing the company as C.E.O. and president until 1988, and chairman until his death at the age of 74 in 1992.
	www.pbs.org /itvs/storewars/stores1.html (457 words)

	Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient Samuel M. Walton
		Sam, as he is known throughout his company, people don't just punch a time clock and draw a paycheck.
		When Sam M. Walton, at the age of 44, opened his first Wal-Mart store in Rogers, Arkansas, in 1962, no one imagined he was introducing a retailing formula that within a generation would impact the lives of millions of people.
		Sam Walton was frequently recognized for his business success and his commitment to the community.
	www.medaloffreedom.com /SamWalton.htm (2309 words)

	Online NewsHour \| Wal-Mart: Impact of a Retail Giant
		Walton was born in Kingfisher, Okla. on March 29, 1918.
		Walton thought he could bring lower prices to rural towns and proposed to open bigger stores in those areas, but his suggestion was turned down by Ben Franklin executives.
		Sam Walton's widow, Alice, and their four children hold the sixth through tenth spot on Forbes' list of the world's richest, each worth an estimated $20 billion.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/business/wal-mart/sam-walton.html (932 words)

	USATODAY.com - Wal-Mart family lobbies for tax cuts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Sam Walton's widow, Helen, inherited his shares after his 1992 death; she now owns about 8% of the company.
		Walton's was Progress for America's sixth-biggest gift, putting her ahead of top Bush fundraiser Carl Lindner of Cincinnati, says the Center for Responsive Politics.
		Walton, 55, is a former stockbroker who mostly lives on her Rocking W horse ranch west of Fort Worth.
	www.usatoday.com /money/perfi/taxes/2005-04-05-waltons-usat_x.htm (1489 words)

	Walton, Sam - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		WALTON, SAM [Walton, Sam] (Samuel Moore Walton), 1918-92, American retailing executive, b.
		Walton developed Wal-Mart into a chain of massive, centrally controlled stores that were typically sited in small towns and rural areas.
		Walton, who stepped aside as chief executive of the company in 1988 but remained active in its management, was by 1985 the wealthiest person in the United States.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-waltons1am.html (245 words)

	American National Business Hall of Fame, ANBHF Sam Walton
		In 1987 Sam Moore Walton was rated by Fortune as the richest individual in America and the third richest in the world.
		Sam Walton was born in 1918 in Kingfisher, Oklahoma.
		Walton is well aware of this and has prevented it from occurring by making good customer relations the number one company priority.
	www.anbhf.org /laureates/swalton.html (1653 words)

	Sam Walton: Great From the Start — HBS Working Knowledge
		Walton's first store was a second-rate store in a second-rate town in what no one would have classified as a first-rate state.
		It seems that way because it is. Sam Walton did not become a billionaire because he was a genius (although he was without question smart, shrewd, and astute).
		The fact that Walton had acquired the lease to a store in Newport that Kroger was vacating and then set up a small department store himself, which he called the Eagle Store, might not have been completely irrelevant in Holmes's thinking.
	hbswk.hbs.edu /item/2375.html (2047 words)

	Sam Walton Biography (Business Personality) — Infoplease.com
		Sam Walton, with his brother Bud Walton, founded Wal-Mart, the chain of discount variety stores that in the 1990s became the world's largest retailer.
		Sam Walton went into the retail business in 1945, and by the time Wal-Mart first opened in 1962 he owned a chain of 15 variety stores in Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma.
		Sam Walton - Sam Walton retailer Born: 3/29/1918 Birthplace: Kingfisher, Okla. After graduating from the...
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/samwalton.html (357 words)

	USATODAY.com - Wal-Mart heirs pour riches into education reform (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Walton, one of founder Sam Walton's four children, says the family expects to donate as much as 20% of its $100 billion in Wal-Mart stock.
		Walton, 57, who is leading the family's giving, says improving education could have the broadest impact on the most pressing problems.
		Critics say the Waltons could do the opposite: weaken public schools by encouraging the flow of tax dollars to less-regulated charter schools and to religious and other private schools through vouchers.
	www.usatoday.com /money/companies/2004-03-11-waltons_x.htm (1466 words)

	Walton family keeps hand on the business - Sam Walton, Wal-Mart business Discount Store News - Find Articles
		Helen Walton, Sam Walton's widow, is a trustee of the family trust, along with their sons Rob, John and Jim and daughter Alice.
		Rather, Sam Walton's oldest son is taking an active role as chairman, especially in the fields of real estate and expansion into China.
		Walton's widow, Helen, keeps busy by involving herself in several charitable activities, such as the Presbyterian Church and education, an analyst said.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3092/is_n23_v33/ai_15978432 (775 words)

	The horrible house of Walton
		Walton was good at playing “modest” despite the fact that he was the richest man in America when he died in 1992.
		She and the Walton Foundation lobbied for the passage of a bill that exempts the foundation from paying Arkansas sales tax on the purchase or sale of artwork for the new Walton Art Center, due to open in the next couple years.
		Thus, Elizabeth Paige Laurie, the granddaughter of Wal-Mart co-founder Bud Walton, Sam’s brother, was forced to return her bachelor’s degree from the University of Southern California after it was revealed that she paid her roommate to do her classwork for three years.
	www.socialistworker.org /2005-2/567/567_05_Walton.shtml (1273 words)

	TIME 100: Sam Walton
		Walton was an active student of retailing — all family vacations included store visits — so by the time a barber named Herb Gibson from Berryville, Ark., began opening discount stores outside towns where Sam ran variety stores, Walton saw what was coming.
		At that time, Walton was too far off the beaten path to attract the attention of competitors or suppliers, much less Wall Street.
		Once committed to discounting, Walton began a crusade that lasted the rest of his life: to drive costs out of the merchandising system wherever they lay — in the stores, in the manufacturers' profit margins and with the middleman — all in the service of driving prices down, down, down.
	www.time.com /time/time100/builder/profile/walton.html (450 words)

	in-cites - Sam M. Walton College of Business, University of Arkansas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The increase in citations is an indication that we are succeeding.
		The Walton College encourages excellence in disciplinary and interdisciplinary research in any of the areas encompassing the six disciplines corresponding to our academic departments: accounting, economics, finance, information systems, marketing and logistics, and management.
		The Walton College has strategic plans for more visible research in retail marketing, supply chain management, and information systems because these areas have been the foundation for a revolution in the operation of the consumer package goods industry.
	www.in-cites.com /institutions/SamWaltonCollgofBus.html (637 words)

	Wal-Mart Visitors Center, Bentonville, Arkansas
		Sam Walton, the late Wal-Mart Founder, was one of the country's richest people (and family members still are).
		Sam grew up in the depression, and during this hard period forged his attitude of not "Can Do," but "Will Do." Wal-Mart's huge success in an understandable low-tech business implies that anyone with the right attitude can win.
		And, after Sam's death, his entire office was moved from general headquarters and reassembled here.
	www.roadsideamerica.com /attract/ARBENwalmart.html (557 words)

	Wal-Mart's Walton Family: The Beasts of Bentonville
		Sam Walton was born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma in 1918, graduating from the University of Missouri with an economics degree in 1940.
		Walton and his eldest son, S. Robson (Rob) Walton (who is now chairman of Wal-Mart), figured that the only way they could come up with the money to pay their debts, was an Initial Public Offering (IPO), issuing shares of stock to the public.
		The Waltons are using their money to build up a banking empire, which apparently would give them one of the largest banks in the United States and the world.
	www.larouchepub.com /other/2004/3103waltons.html (3004 words)

	Sam Walton
		Wal-Mart goes according to what Sam Walton believed, "Each Wal-Mart store should reflect the values of its customers and support the vision they hold for their community" (The Wal-Mart Story).
		Sam Walton always made quite an impression on everyone.
		Sam Walton has done so much for the retail world.
	www.topmotivators.com /samwalton.html (273 words)

	Amazon.ca: Sam Walton: Made in America (Large Print: Books: Sam Walton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The late Sam Walton was one of the shrewdest and richest merchants in America.
		The even-paced, "down-home" voice of Kevin O'Morrison is well-matched to the persona conveyed in Walton's autobiography.
		Wal mart was "Made in america" by sam walton and now everything in wal mart says "Made in china." Wal amrt pays its emplotyees next to nothing and breaks strikes and prevents union formations.
	www.amazon.ca /Sam-Walton-America-Large-Print/dp/0385426178 (829 words)

	Sam Walton, Astral Projections, Christian Lawyers, Oil Tycoons, and Hair Loss
		Like books on Sam Walton, the man who created 3,000 discount stores, with almost a million workers; the man who converted $1,000,000 in debt in 1965 to $200,000,000,000 in assets when he popped off in 1992.
		Walton's original method of operation was to set up huge discount stores that, in opposition to K-Mart or Target or J C Penney or Sears --- were located solely in small towns.
		At the end of his life, Sam Walton was lionized --- but few took the trouble to point out his was a tyrannical business where employees could be fired for trying to organize unions to represent them, or even falling in love with a clerk in the next department.
	www.ralphmag.org /newS.html (4175 words)

	How to be succesful by Sam Walton
		Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart, grew up poor in a farm community in rural Missouri during the Great Depression.
		When Walton died in 1992, the family's net worth approached $25 billion.
		I guess in all my years, what I heard more often than anything was: a town of less than 50,000 populations cannot support a discount store for very long.
	www.escotal.com /samwalton.html (848 words)

	The Walton heirs - Jun. 28, 2005
		John Walton, 58, was the second son of Wal-Mart (Research) founder Sam Walton.
		Before joining Wal-Mart in 1969, Rob Walton was a partner in the law firm of Conner and Winters in Tulsa, Okla. At Wal-Mart, Rob Walton served as senior vice president, general counsel and vice chairman.
		Jim Walton: The youngest son of Sam Walton, Jim Walton, 57, is said to represent the family's private side.
	money.cnn.com /2005/06/28/news/fortune500/walton_family (824 words)

	Sam M. Walton Fellows
		Sam M. Walton Fellows, Al Konuwa from Butte College, Oroville, CA and Curtis DeBerg from California State University, Chico, CA share their excitement after becoming the 1999 SIFE International Champions.
		As a faculty member of a fully accredited college, you are eligible to apply to become a Sam M. Walton Free Enterprise Fellow and start a SIFE Team on your campus today.
		Those accepted as a Sam M. Walton Free Enterprise Fellow must have a thorough understanding of the free enterprise system, and the ability to work with college students, community groups and local businesses.
	www.daltonstate.edu /sife/samwaltonfellows.htm (362 words)

	Mighty Oaks From Little Acorns Grow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Here are the pertinent elements of the story of the founding of a business empire: Sam and the Mrs., living in Newport in postwar northeast Arkansas, leased a Ben Franklin discount store franchise.
		Sam looked for another store to lease, and found the one in the top picture.
		A few feet away is Sam Walton's final office, disassembled, transported from his corporate headquarters and rebuilt here, preserved exactly as it was on the day he passed away.
	users.aristotle.net /~russjohn/walton.html (457 words)

	eBay - Product Info - eBay - Book: Sam Walton (ISBN: 0553562835) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In a story rich with anecdotes and the "rules of the road" of both Main Street and Wall Street, Sam Walton chronicles the inspiration, heart, and optimism that propelled him to lasso the American Dream.
		Sam understood the importance of his people and how to take care of the customer.
		Sam Walton and Wal-Mart Sam was a consummate competitor.
	product.ebay.com /Sam-Walton_ISBN_0553562835_W0QQfvcsZ1389QQsoprZ996295 (618 words)

	BW Online \| August 9, 2004 \| Sam Walton: King Of The Discounters
		Walton already showed the drive that would turn his Wal-Mart (WMT) discount chain into the world's largest company.
		Walton's wife, Helen, was responsible for one strategy that fueled Wal-Mart's success: its early focus on small towns.
		So when Walton was ready to start his own Ben Franklin variety store as a franchisee in 1945 -- borrowing $20,000 from Helen's dad -- they landed in tiny Newport, Ark. Walton's small-town focus forced him to build his own distribution and communications systems.
	www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/04_32/b3895024_mz072.htm (832 words)

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