With guidance from Jean Duboc, a veteran of Carrefour's hypermarket division, CBD has reduced construction and operating costs of its hypermarkets by 30% since 2000 by making simple changes like renting out space at store entrances.

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The simple test was developed and published in 2000 by Myrna Weissman, Ph.

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ShelterBox was started in 2000 by Tom Henderson who had the simple idea of placing all the items a homeless family of 10 could need in one big plastic box.

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The pre-2000 model for building a biotech company was simple.

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There's a simple reason why Gingrich did not run for the presidency in 1996 and 2000.

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In 2000 when the tech bubble was flying high, retirement plan investing was simple.

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The success of Gladwell's first book, "The Tipping Point, " published in 2000, and of his later work have come at a time when simple explanations of complex systems are in vogue.

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