They were asking that Apple be enjoined from using the "Tiger" moniker to promote its new operating system (Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, natch) anywhere on its web site or in any new advertising, packaging or signage.

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To get even more color on her market, Jarecki posted research surveys at her company's site and inserted them into the dye packaging. (Buyers who filled them out received a free "My Betty Is Ready" black cotton T-shirt.) About 1, 000 responses told a surprising story: Less than 5% of her customer base came from the 18- to 25-year-old demographic, and half lived in non-urban zones like Nebraska, Washington and Arkansas.

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The Trostre site makes a wide range of tinplate products for the food and packaging industries, including specialised coated tins.

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"Because all the food in our supermarket will be grown on site we won't need a big processing factory to make packaging and we won't have to burn lots of fossil fuel to transport it across the globe, " he said.

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In it, the independent product review site listed 10 examples of household and grocery products that have decreased in size, thanks to packaging shrinks, in part due to rising commodity and energy costs, that is.

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