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To: Joe S Pack who wrote (42168)	11/29/2003 3:23:14 PM
From: Joe S Pack	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74559

Holiday sale is going well to the extreme that they even crushed a women at Wal-Mart store. news.bbc.co.uk Woman crushed in rush at DVD sale The run-up to Christmas is an exceptionally busy time for shops A US store chain has apologised to a woman knocked unconscious as shoppers rushed for a sale of DVD players. Patricia VanLester was knocked to the ground in the frenzied dash for a $29 DVD player at a Wal-Mart SuperCenter in Orange City, Florida. The 41-year-old had been first in the queue when the post-Thanksgiving sale opened at 6am local time on Friday. "She got pushed down, and they walked over her like a herd of elephants," said her sister, Linda Ellzey. Paramedics called to the store found VanLester unconscious on top of a DVD player, surrounded by shoppers seemingly oblivious to her, Mark O'Keefe, a spokesman for EVAC Ambulance, told Associated Press. Doctors at the hospital which admitted Ms VanLester said she had suffered a seizure after being knocked down and would probably remain in care for the rest of the weekend. 'Stop stepping on her!' Ms Ellzey said some shoppers had tried to help her sister, and one employee helped rescue the woman, but most people just continued their rush for deals. "All they cared about was a stupid DVD player," she said. "I told them, 'Stop stepping on my sister! She's on the ground!'" Ms Ellzey said Wal-Mart officials called later to ask after her sister, and the store apologised and offered to put a DVD player on hold for her. Wal-Mart Stores spokeswoman Karen Burk said she had never heard of a such a melee during a sale. "We are very disappointed this happened," she said. "We want her to come back as a shopper." The day after Thanksgiving - the last Thursday of November - is traditionally the beginning of the Christmas season in the US.

To: Joe S Pack who wrote (42168)	11/30/2003 6:21:59 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

nationalization, turning back privatization re-regulation is going to be the order of the day. The nation-state, without new sources of revenue to care for old population, without the possibility of increasing the already higher taxes will need state-owned enterprises to generate revenues to pay its costs. This is a trend followed by Elmat here in BBR: Message 18928456 It trend will start in Japan, goes to Europe and finally the US.