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...only to learn what are the gross necessaries of life and what methods have been taken to obtain them." The irony, of course, is that now we would say even the most "civilized" mid-nineteenth-century American lived a life far more primitive than any imaginable today. No Coca-Cola (nor plastic bottle in which to hold it); no Gore-Tex jacket (nor zipper with which close it); no Chevy Blazer (nor asphalt on which to drive it). Really, how can you talk about gross necessaries when you haven't even been to Filene's Basement...
...consumer giants such as Heinz, Kellogg, McDonald's, Coca-Cola and Gillette have also taken a beating, falling more than 30%. The culprits: slowing sales and falling profits. Last Friday soap seller Dial saw its stock slip 22% after the company issued its own earnings warning. Dial is down 70% over the past year...
...site, Ecopledge.com, lists three companies--Coca-Cola, General Motors, and BP-Amoco--which are purported to be particularly unfriendly to ecological causes...
With students' non-employment vows, Ecopledge hopes to pressure Coca-Cola to honor its 1990 agreement to manufacture 25 percent of all plastic Coca-Cola bottles from recycled material...
...Inflation swept the nation and destroyed fortunes in single strokes," Chang said. She said a bottle of Coca-Cola cost $83 in Shanghai in 1947 and her mother paid her school tuition in rice...