Wal-Mart at Forefront of Hurricane Relief
6th Sep 2005, 06:13 GMT
At 8 a.m. on Wednesday, as New Orleans filled with water, Wal-Mart chief executive H. Lee Scott Jr. called an emergency meeting of his top lieutenants and warned them he did not want a "measured response" to the hurricane.
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