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...There's not enough time in a 30-second TV ad to properly explain the need." Instead, Shaklee's 750,000 members and distributors go into people's homes, talk about the toxic chemicals in regular cleaners and demonstrate how to use Shaklee's nontoxic, superconcentrated (using less packaging) products???in either Spanish or English. "Their selling model is to work on environmental education at the same time," says Yale's Esty. "It really is taking the whole commitment to reducing chemical exposure to a higher level...
...certificates is that they are themselves inflationary. Explains M. Todd Cooke, president of the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society, the nation's largest mutual savings bank: "Money is our raw material. If we have to pay depositors more to get it from depositors, then the cost of one of our products???mortgage loans?is also going to have...
...every car and tractor, in every tank and plane?oil. Behind almost every lighted glass tower, giant industrial plant or little workshop, computer and moon rocket and television signal?oil. Behind fertilizers, drugs, chemicals, synthetic textiles and thousands of other products???the same substance that until recently was taken for granted as a seemingly inexhaustible and obedient treasure. Few noted the considerable historic irony that the world's most advanced civilizations depended for this treasure on countries generally considered weak, compliant and disunited. Now all that has changed, and the result has been a major economic and political dislocation throughout...
...suffering most from the quadrupled world price of oil. Called the "Fourth World" by World Bank President Robert McNamara, they comprise nearly one billion people in some 40 underdeveloped nations in Africa, Asia and Lathi America. For them, today's price of energy and key petroleum-based products???fertilizer, chemicals and drugs ?has meant a further reduction in an already pitifully low living standard...
Even after the next stage of liberalization, foreigners will not be able to send in many products???including unlimited quantities of oranges and some airplanes and machinery?or to invest in the manufacturing of large computers, certain electronic items and petrochemicals. The Japanese government rejects many investment applications, stalls on others, attaches unacceptable conditions to still others. Ford and Chrysler have been delayed for years in attempts to buy into the booming Japanese auto industry, and General Motors has won permission for only a limited investment: 35% ownership of a joint venture with Isuzu Motors, a truck maker. Says James...