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Progress also has a plan to sell synthetic gypsum, a by-product of its newly installed pollution-reducing stack scrubbers, to a plant that was scheduled to be built this year by wallboard maker CertainTeed. Gypsum is a critical component of wallboard, which is a critical component of housing construction. You know where that story goes. Because construction has collapsed, CertainTeed has postponed the wallboard plant until...
...received handwritten letters from consumers thanking us and saying they've been waiting for a zero-calorie natural sweetener that tasted good and was sold at a price they could afford," says Ann Tucker, director of marketing for Truvia, noting that people bake and cook with the product too. She adds that consumer research was conducted on four continents and in seven countries for several years prior to launch. The growing demand for natural products was confirmed. (See pictures of what makes you eat more food...
...real-estate officials who claimed that encouraging JP Licks to come into the Square was in line with their “commitment to local businesses that bring a unique and quality product” seemed odd. After all, while JP Licks is a local business with a quality product, so is Herrell’s, which has offered the same product for 27 years. If Harvard is truly committed to local businesses with “unique” products, why bring in one that serves a virtually identical function as another...
...viewers to detect the toxic undertaste in their own good time. In its amiable, ambling way, The Joneses is a zeitgeist film: it says as much as a Michael Moore screed about the American way of debt. It's also a feature-long joke about Hollywood's mania for product placement...
...Economists at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed a model that shows if California improves energy efficiency by just 1 percent per year, the state's climate policies will increase the gross state product by approximately $76 billion, increasing real household incomes by up to $48 billion and create as many as 403,000 new jobs...