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...Reducing the size of products as a way of increasing prices is not new. Frito-Lay cut the amount of chips in their bags and Poland Springs reduced its water cooler jugs from 6 to 5 gallons years ago, all while keeping prices the same. Still, says Chris Waldrop, director of the Food Policy Institute at the Consumer Federal of America, "What's going on now is definitely reflective of rising food costs and rising fuel costs." Waldrop says he doesn't blame manufacturers for taking the step to protect their bottom lines, but says the food companies should...
...wrote, "that highly skilled U.S. engineers are not always available on a timely basis." Microchip giant Intel, for example, hired 300 engineers with master's or doctoral degrees last year. About 100 of them came from outside the U.S. "It's a pretty small number percentage-wise," says Tom Waldrop, an Intel spokesman, "but they have a very high effect on the success of the company...
...Waldrop said that the Mather masters have managed to make the Harvard environment more welcoming to minority students by their response to the situation, including a visit to the Mather dining hall to talk to minority students...
...This incident, obviously, is not going to make me hate Harvard," Waldrop said...
...Mather House really came together in a moment of crisis," Waldrop said...