Word: shelfful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cola market, he will find two competitors ready to smash it. Virgin Cola will sally forth in the U.S. first in the Philadelphia area. The U.S. needs another cola like it needs another celebrity talk show, but Virgin plans to undercut Coke and Pepsi on the shelf price yet offer more profit to retailers...
...industry; insiders say it is focusing on Frito-Lay. The action was all the more unexpected because other companies have amassed even larger shares of their respective markets without government eyebrows being raised (see chart). But Justice is said to be looking hard at Frito-Lay's use of shelf allowances, a common retailing practice in which manufacturers pay stores up to $100,000 a foot for desirable shelf space. Among other things, investigators want to know if Frito-Lay has been purchasing more space than it needs in order to muscle out competitors...
News of the Justice investigation puzzled legal experts, who noted that Washington hasn't challenged industry shelf-space practices in more than a decade. Apparently Frito-Lay has become something of a victim of its own clout. "They've driven all their competitors out of business by being too successful," says William Leach, who follows the food industry for the investment firm Donaldson, Lufkin Jenrette. "There's nothing unethical. They're just better at product development, marketing and execution. But there is no law against doing well." That, of course, is something the government is now trying to decide...
...American Red Cross and other U.S. private voluntary organizations. And far from not being useful, cefaclor, the active ingredient in CeclorCD, has demonstrated its value in countries at all stages of economic development. It is the world's largest-selling oral antibiotic. Furthermore, the entire donation had a shelf life ranging from eight to 15 months and was intended for immediate use in this tragic emergency. Lilly supports the need for donation guidelines. However, as they stand today, proposed guidelines, if strictly applied, would deny victims of catastrophes access to the world's most advanced medicines and, in the case...
...destined for the company's Atlanta headquarters, was empty. In fact, there may have been a misunderstanding--what National Transportation Safety Board investigator Greg Feith has called "a terminology problem"--and possibly a fatal one: the canisters may not all have been empty; they may have merely exceeded their shelf life. Though no generators have yet been found, pieces of the salvaged wreckage, including a singed cockpit life preserver and two sooty steps from near the cockpit, indicate there was a fire on board the plane. And minutes before the crash, pilot Candalyn Kubeck told the Miami tower the cockpit...