Kraft Foods slims its snack ads, vending machines get religion and sugar is not evil.

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Phillip Morris makes such brands as Marlboro, Virginia Slims, Chesterfield and Basic.

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When the country stabilized, the Slims were a clan of considerable wealth.

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Swiss bank UBS has announced it is cutting 10, 000 jobs worldwide as it tries to cut costs and slims down its investment banking activities.

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When it comes to kicking the cigarette habit, the United States certainly has come a long way, baby, to borrow the old Virginia Slims tagline.

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But he also blames targeted promotions by tobacco companies (like Virginia Slims targeting women in the 1970s and other brands targeting inner-city minority groups today) and the movies.

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This slims down the margin on sales considerably.

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That leaves it focused on the U.S. tobacco market, where it controls 49% of the retail cigarette market with its Marlboro, Virginia Slims, and Parliament brands, and 54.5% of the much smaller smokeless tobacco market with its Skoal and Copenhagen brands.

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The new system which will underlie both consumer-focused iterations of Windows 8, simply dubbed v4, slims down the 768MB of disk space previously required on Vista for a significantly lighter 184MB (an average) footprint in Windows 8 and adds greater in-box support for more commonly used, contemporary printers -- specifically for Windows RT.

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