Ms. Lester, the Wal-Mart spokeswoman, said the company chose which items to include based on what was popular in its order-online, pick-up-in-store service.
The completion of a conflict assessment, based on confidential interviews, is the best way to pinpoint the most important items to include on a consensus building agenda.
Its wholesale business has grown accordingly from small boutiques looking for seasonal items to include gift shops at zoos, among them the Bronx Zoo, and stores like Olly Shoes and the Paper Place.
Although the compiler exercised considerable latitude in choosing items to include in the encyclopaedia, comment was often restricted to a minimum, so that the reader was free to form an opinion of what was offered.
It is important to be realistic about the amount of time it will take for a group that is not used to working together to reach agreement on the items to include on a complex work agenda.
Mr. Meltzer is conducting an auction on his Web site — ordinarypeoplechangetheworld.com — with items to include tickets to a taping of the Comedy Central program "The Colbert Report," a walk-on role in the NBC series "Heroes," and original art from comic-book creators who work for DC Comics, Marvel Entertainment and other publishers.
Some critical items to include in a modeling protocol are meteorological and terrain data, as well as source-specific information (stack height, temperature, exit velocity, elevation, and allowable and actual emission rates of applicable pollutants), and receptor data from appropriate Class I areas.
