Back home in Pittsburgh, Heinz in September opened its first central research lab, the Innovation Center, just north of the city in Marshall Township, Pa.

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The city also became a lab experiment in planning as the central government sought to speed urbanization.

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To them economic growth and low unemployment are simply a function of allegedly wise central planning whereby 4% GDP growth and 5% unemployment can essentially be conceived in a lab.

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