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They may need to do more of that kind of moving. On Oct. 15, Richard Blumenthal, Connecticut's attorney general, announced that he is launching an investigation into whether the "Smart Choices" label violates his state's consumer-protection laws. "What's so 'smart' about Froot Loops?" he asked at a press conference. If the label is found to be misleading, it will need to be changed, he said...
...spokeswoman for General Mills said the company declined to comment for this story, but Kellogg CEO David Mackay defends his firm's much maligned Froot Loops, noting that the cereal is a good source of vitamins A and C. And those 12 g of sugar? "Twelve grams of sugar is 50 calories," says Mackay. "A presweetened cereal as part of a regular diet for kids is not a bad thing." But it's hard to argue that it's a good thing either...
...Food • laughable inclusion by of Froot Loops and other sugary cereals on "Smart Choices" list of ostensibly more nutritious items...
...million, underwritten by Morgan Stanley, according to data from Bloomberg Finance L.P. At the end of 2007, Harvard held more than $914 million in fixed-rate bonds, according to the annual financial report. In total, Harvard has more than $3.8 billion in bonds and notes payable. Kenneth A. Froot, a professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, said that Harvard’s AAA credit rating, the highest attainable by a corporation, may insulate it from the trouble in the bond market. “Having a AAA rating is important,” he said...
...better use of mathematical modeling, some educators say, is simply to devise better models - specifically, models that are capable of accounting for seismic, unexpected and not easily explainable shifts in the market. In recent years, "prices have behaved in a way that no one has ever really seen before," Froot says. "You don't want to rely on models that just use historical information in prices ... It's probably possible to come up with better measures of risk in real time...