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...think your grocery bags have gotten a little lighter lately, you might be right. Manufacturers are quietly trimming the content of their packaged products--from yogurt and ice cream to laundry detergent and diapers--and often they aren't dropping prices to match. Called a "weight out" in industry parlance, product downsizing lets companies maintain profit margins without raising prices. Faced with a flagging economy and increasingly finicky, cost-conscious consumers, manufacturers have been using this decades-old tactic more aggressively in the past year...
...chance to sound off. "This American-style remuneration has no place in this country, and if you don't revise this package you will have set a very dangerous precedent," shareholder Victor Silk told HSBC chairman John Bond. But in the end, Aldinger carried off his saucer of cream with relative ease. Bond's argument that Aldinger would be getting slightly less than his previous pay package was grudgingly accepted by the majority of shareholders, and institutional investors voted heavily in his favor. And so Aldinger, who now ranks among the highest-paid executives in Britain, will take home...
...genetics is well understood. But the perils of using food crops became clear last December when the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) ordered the incineration of 500,000 bushels of soybeans in Aurora, Neb. The soybeans, from a plant used in everything from baby food and margarine to ice cream, were inadvertently mixed in a silo with corn that was genetically engineered by a Texas firm, ProdiGene Inc., to produce a vaccine against pig diarrhea. "Drugs have side effects," says Jean Halloran of the Consumers Union. "They should not turn up in our cornflakes...
...ALBERTSONS.COM Ice cream and frosted cupcakes arrived shipshape, but our Seattle shopper was disappointed to find a slim selection of fresh fish and organic food. "I had to go through six pages of yogurt to find out that they didn't have any organic yogurt," he says. And while the delivery person was prompt and polite (deliveries are scheduled in 90-min. blocks from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.), the fresh flowers the shopper ordered were forgotten. He decided he'd rather avoid the $9.95 delivery fee and do his own shopping...
...assertion that Bush is a "deft politician with big ideas and with the guts to take risks that can yield great victories." It was not a big idea or much of a risk to wage war against Iraq's ragtag military. Bush might have scared the bejeezus out of cream puffs like Iran and Syria, but North Korea turned Bush's pre-emption doctrine on its ear and obtained meetings with the U.S. Besides wage war and cut taxes, what has Bush done? PHIL KENNY Colorado Springs, Colo...