Like the architect Robert Venturi, they're cultural plunderers, mix 'n' matchers, thrift store assemblers and meta-narrative dissemblers.

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More slimming-down came in 2002, when Johnson spun off his old pet food business (9 Lives, Kibbles 'n Bits), StarKist tuna, infant foods and store-brand soups into a new company and handed it to Del Monte.

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That's a hangover from the early days, when Canfield and Smith didn't have the clout or the bucks to jump onto the candy racks at Wal-Mart or CVS. So they approached stores like Urban Outfitters, Linens 'n Things, Eastern Mountain Sports and Newbury Comics, a popular Boston-area record store.

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Last month Kim celebrated the first-year anniversary of her store, Get Reel Video, in Brooklyn, N.

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So in January, Lueck took a part-time job at a Harris Teeter store near his home in Cary, N.

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Before Holbrooke was sworn in, Helms asked the White House to appoint an alternate U.N. delegate: Irwin Belk, a feisty North Carolina buddy who heads a department-store chain.

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Two hundred GM scientists and engineers are working on all four problems at once at the company's fuel-cell headquarters, a lab next to a livestock feed store in tiny Honeoye Falls, N.

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