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Mexico and Thailand have announced that they would like to phase out CFCs on the same timetable as the developed nations. One factor spurring them on may be the likelihood that exports not meeting strict ozone-friendly standards could soon face international sanctions. But there is also grass-roots pressure in some developing countries. In Mexico, for example, consumer complaints persuaded local manufacturers that it was time to begin removing CFCs from aerosol products. The changeover happened so quickly that when one company ran out of labels saying THIS IS A CFC-FREE PRODUCT, store managers rejected the shipment, knowing...
...York or Philadelphia ghettoes. The only other semi-acknowledged (by these Eastern hoops gurus) source of basketball talent is the fields of Indiana, the land of the Hoosier myth. But only rarely does a great one emerge from the wheat fields and the single hoop planted in the grass by a dirt road...
...needed a breather," he says. "It had been a long struggle organizing for 18 years [and] I wanted to see about making grass roots organizing more widespread...
Techniques of grass roots organization and voter targeting that Ganz pioneered were proven capable of winning campaigns for candidates on extremely tight budgets...
Despite the longshot odds of being able to organize a grass roots campaign overnight, Ganz says, "I decided to give it a shot...