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...done nothing, we faced seeing a 15% market-share slide, to 13%," says John Bowlin, the president of Kraft Foods, the division of Philip Morris that makes Post cereals. Post was not losing share to Kellogg as much as to private-label brands, which can cost one-third as much as their national counterparts and have grown from 3% of the cereal market in 1987 to 10% today. (Industry insiders dub the price spread between store-brand and name-brand cereals "the gouge...
Even after controlling for various occupations, locations and unionization rates, repeated research shows that one-third of the pay differential cannot be explained rationally. Despite D'Souza's assertion, it is painfully obvious that the fault lies in the blatant and subtle discrimination which still pervades American society and manifests itself in today's workplace...
...dramatic [a change] because it's only one-third of the population being replaced," Lewis said...
...article I read this fall seemed typical of this attitude. While it provided a cogent analysis of a summer intern's life in Washington, it gloried in what it described as Harvard's pre-eminence in the nation's capital. One intern was quoted as saying that at an initial meeting of White House interns "at least one-third of the people were from Harvard...Everyone else was rolling their eyes, but I was proud." Certainly it is positive to have large numbers of Harvard students in Washington, but to gloat over the fact is pure arrogance. Such comments would...
...most, one-third of the house could change," Lewis said. "If there did turn out to be a lack of proportionality, it would be corrected the following year...