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Enter Aldi, that spartan bastion of private-label goods where brand names like Coke and Betty Crocker have largely been banished for being too pricey. Aldi concentrates on selling core high-volume grocery products like ketchup and coffee. Want a choice in those categories? Forget it. By offering a single brand in a single size, Aldi executives say, the chain can substantially undercut conventional retailers on 90% of the products it sells...
...Case of Need” won that year’s Edgar Award for Best Novel, Crichton’s cover of anonymity was blown.Crichton’s part-time job soon became his lucrative livelihood; heavily influenced by his medical training, Crichton’s unique brand of science thriller has sold over 150 million copies worldwide. Thirteen of his novels have been adapted into high-grossing films. After the movie version of his book “Jurassic Park” brought in over $914 million, a newly-discovered dinosaur was named “Crichton?...
...especially, according to Frankel, because of a general mistrust in the Republican Party stemming from the Bush administration’s failures in the past eight years. “Senator McCain, closely linked to an unpopular president...has underestimated the angst people in America have with the Republican brand,” Vilsack said. Putting it simply, Hochschild said, “McCain has run a poor campaign.” Law professor Alan M. Dershowitz said McCain lowered his chances of capturing the independent vote by adding Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to the ticket. “Independents...
...then there are the machines. Allegheny County was the only county in the country to verify the software on a portion of its ES&S-brand iVotronic voting machines prior to this election. However, the county employed a testing firm that was suspended the next week by the federal government. Will local voting watchdogs find the malfunctions, inaccuracies or even tampering they fear in those paperless machines? And will a state Supreme Court ruling, forcing all polling places to have emergency paper ballots on hand if there are breakdowns in 50% or more of machines, help or hinder the process...
...That, in brief, could describe the Chinese Product Safety Scandal of 2008. As early as January, infants in China raised on Sanlu brand baby formula began developing kidney problems, and parents raised complaints that were ignored by company and local government officials. When the news finally broke in September, tests found four infants had died and more than 60,000 were sickened from formula tainted with melamine, a chemical used in plastics that can make the protein content of milk - and many other food products - appear higher, and, when consumed, can also cause kidney failure. Expanded inspections found traces...