Wal-Mart Tops Fortune 500 List for Third Year

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NEW YORK - A tail wind of improving economic conditions blew many major companies to record revenues in 2003, but none was able to knock Wal-Mart Stores Inc. off the top of the Fortune 500 list.

With sales of almost $259 billion - about a quarter of a trillion dollars - the global chain of general stores topped the list of the nation's largest publicly traded companies for the third straight year. There was some predictable shuffling among the rest of the top 10.

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Wal-Mart Tops Fortune 500 List for Third Year

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