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...Anna Amelia Pratt was born in the U.S. but also migrated to Mexico seeking protection because she was the granddaughter of Mormon apostle Parley Pratt, who had 12 wives and had also crossed the border seeking refuge. In Mexico she met Gaskell Romney, Mitt Romney’s grandfather. Their marriage took place in 1895 in Dublan, Mexico, and their children were born there...
...Still, green or not, for some Greensburg will never heal. Former mayor Lonnie McCollum, one of the first to raise the idea of building green, quit his post three weeks after the tornado, citing exhaustion, and eventually moved with his wife to the neighboring town of Pratt. On recent Friday, McCollum spoke wistfully of the town in which he had lived his entire life. He can't let Greensburg go, but he can't return, either. "We had a Norman Rockwell existence," the 62-year-old says. "For me, it's completely gone. There's nothing out there...
...will aim to reach a comprehensive and international alternative solution to the global warming problem by drawing on leaders and scholars from a “variety of venues” in science, academia, business, government, and non-governmental organizations, according to the plan’s co-director, Pratt Professor of Business and Government Robert N. Stavins...
Cider's a cool brew now, but it wasn't always thus. "It was thought of as a product consumed by vagrants on park benches," says Maurice Pratt, C&C chief executive. Cider was commonly sold in large plastic bottles at discount prices, bolstering its cheap image. In Ireland, C&C's cider is called Bulmers Original (it's the same thing as Magners, but drinks company Scottish & Newcastle owns the Bulmers brand outside Ireland). Struggling with stagnant sales in the 1990s, C&C decided dowdy Bulmers needed a makeover. It cut the alcohol content to 4.5% (about the same...
There's always the danger that Magners will prove similarly vulnerable to the whims of fashion, but CEO Pratt insists it won't happen. "Alcopops are like boy bands: here today, gone tomorrow," he says. "But cider has existed for hundreds of years - we've simply added an enhancement." What's more, says Pratt, "Magners has been carefully positioned by us as anything but fashionable." Perhaps, but the pace of Magners' U.K. growth did slow slightly over the winter. C&C is confident demand will pick up again with the warmer weather, and it expects Magners' share of the total...