The ice cream is light, sweet and flavourful, the perfect accompaniment to the often-intense Cuban heat, and comes with a vanilla wafer-like cookie.

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It looks like plain-vanilla call buying is the most popular tactic with Monster-bulls populating the front month.

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As wireless customers spend less money on plain-vanilla cellphone voice calls, carriers are betting that data and entertainment services like text messaging, over-the-air music stores, streaming video and mobile Web browsing will lead growth.

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This fall Kellogg is rolling out more premium-style products like Special K Vanilla Almond.

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