Word: soaps
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...distribution system with 100 bicycle delivery boys, who hauled milk to the families of Soweto exactly when they needed it. The dairy grew to a general provisions shop and, despite police raids and a constant battle to win licenses - for example, he needed a special license to sell soap on Sundays - a small conglomerate bloomed. By the mid-1970s, Maponya's businesses included a chain of general stores, a butcher shop, a restaurant, a Coca-Cola plant, filling stations and a GM and BMW car dealership. "Richard Maponya is the real deal," says Michael Spicer, ceo of South Africa...
...baby boom is certainly having an impact on local business. In my street alone, with exception of the Kaya Foundation store for marijuana paraphernalia and the Soap and Cosmetics Caf?, every store and boutique seems targeted at the city's littlest consumers. There's the Finnish Fashion for Children boutique, the Kronjuwel (Crown Jewel) boutique for designer baby clothes and the Captivation Photography studio showcase plastered with pictures of bulging moms-to-be, dads with kids, grandmas with kids, kids with kids...
Every afternoon, tens of thousands of Moroccans - mostly women in djellabas - trudge past the deserted guard posts that separate the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco, which surrounds it on three sides. The bundles of soap, noodles, socks, and oil they carry home for resale in Morocco are not an entirely legal traffic, but the Spanish authorities are less concerned these days about what leaves Ceuta than about what comes in - particularly to the impoverished hillside neighborhood of Príncipe Alfonso, whose unemployed and disaffected youth are a potentially fertile ground for jihadist recruiters. Last December, Al-Qaeda Number...
Corn is everywhere, and its impact felt in practically everything. It's so plentiful in the U.S. — 90 million planted acres this year – that it's used in the production of thousands of products, from plastics and paint to crayons and soap. And because as much as half of the nation's corn crop could soon be devoted to the production of ethanol fuel, corn prices are expected to rise dramatically, potentially pushing up the cost of numerous products, including packaged snacks and other consumer goods. With corn taking an increasing share of the planting space, prices...
...four years full of Ravishankara’s creative works. Beginning with the band “Action Man” that performed at the freshman talent show four years ago, he’s played in two bands, penned three comic strips, directed 12 episodes of the campus-soap Ivory Tower, and shot 16 movies. “I just like doing these projects. I can’t ever really pin down one thing,” Ravishankara says. The physics concentrator says he is hooked on filmmaking because it allows him to be innovative in many capacities...