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...hurt profitability for the companies and their bottlers. In 2005, Singh increased prices 40% to 60% and later introduced new packaging, like 1.25-liter bottles, which boosted in-home consumption. After a drop in sales in 2006, the Indian market began to grow again in 2007. "I can't complain," says S.B.P. Rammohan, owner of Sri Sarvaraya Sugars Ltd., a southern-India Coke bottler. "It's no longer volume at all costs...
...Matter with Kansas?”, contends that people should ignore issues like marriage and follow their economic self-interest, which aligns with Democratic policies. But people care about culture regardless of their finances. “It’s no less ridiculous to complain about evangelical Christians in Kansas voting for Republicans than to complain about movie stars in Hollywood voting for Democrats who will raise their taxes,” said Ross G. Douthat ’02, a columnist for The New York Times...
...rest are distributed by family and friends during their own travels. “I’m not independently wealthy,” he explains.But clearly for Bataclan, wealth is secondary to happiness, a quality he seems to be bursting with. “How can I complain?” he asks. “This is my first pain-free type of work.” —Staff writer Kerry A. Goodenow can be reached at goodenow@fas.harvard.edu...
...more we can do, it will be done," ATSDR director Howard Frumkin pledged on a visit to the island last month. The Navy itself had already realized it had more to do, setting aside an additional $200 million last year for seven more years of Vieques cleanup. Still, Viequenses complain the Navy is exacerbating the problem by detonating left-over bombs; the Navy insists it is the only safe way to dispose of them...
...Afro-Mexicans face considerable hurdles. Prevailing stereotypes paint the group as happy to live the simple life apart from the rest of society, with no interest in education. The all-black shantytowns near Yanga lack schools, and eager young migrants who move to bigger cities for work complain of blatant discrimination. A report released late last year by Mexico's Congress said that roughly 200,000 black Mexicans who reside in the rural areas of Veracruz and Oaxaca and in tourist cities like Acapulco are out of the reach of social programs like employment support, health coverage, public education...