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Sam Walton started small in the 1970s, but Wal-Mart rapidly became the largest retailer in the United States, with total sales in fiscal year 1995 equaling the combined sales volumes of Kmart, Sears Roebuck and Co., and the supermarket chain The Kroger Co., the next three largest American retail organizations.
The cell suspension was frozen using liquid nitrogen and rapidly thawed in a 37°C water bath.
It operates by electrically acting as if the receiver (handset) had been rapidly and repeatedly replaced on the little pushbuttons (hook switch) inset into the top recess (cradle) of the main portion of the telephone (base).
A suggested solution to the semantic confusion would be to sharpen the distinction between paddleball and racquetball . These games could be defined simply as ` handball played with a paddle,' the only difference being that paddleball employs a perforated wooden racquet and a large spongy ball, while racquetball , which is rapidly pushing both handball and paddleball into obscurity, employs a small strung racquet and a lively rubber ball.
The number of gene pairs represented in three, four and a greater number of genomes decayed rapidly, with highly conserved pairs forming the tail of the distribution (Fig.