How their partnership was formed: Like Gates and Allen, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield were childhood friends.

关系形成：跟盖茨和艾伦一样，本·可汗和杰里·科恩菲尔德在童年时代就是朋友。

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When Cohen inquired about representation with a law firm, he was told it would cost at least $50, 000--but Ben &Jerry 19s had only earned $7, 000 more than that in net income the previous year.

当科恩就其产品上柜问题向一家律师事务所询问时，他被告知这至少要花费5万美元 -但本杰里的纯收入较以上一年只增加了7000美元。

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Jerry and Ben liked the idea, and gave Real Ice Cream exclusive rights to distribute their ice cream in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.

他们两人欣赏这个点子，于是给“真口味”冰淇淋公司缅因州、新罕布什尔州与佛蒙特州的独家经销权。

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Ben and Jerry's even has a small graveyard with markers for flavors that have been retired.

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Vermont-based ice cream company Ben and Jerrys named an ice cream flavor after her.

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The British-and-Dutch company Unilever bought Ben and Jerry's in two thousand.

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By 1996 it had become a new flavour of Ben and Jerry's ice cream and the title on a Newsweek cover.

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Popular chocolate goods such as Cadbury's Dairy Milk, Maltesers and Kit Kat are now fair trade, while ice cream producers Ben and Jerry's will switch to exclusively fair trade ingredients this year.

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Colbert, whose tongue-in-cheek public-relations coups have included having a Virgin America airplane and a flavor of Ben and Jerry's ice cream named after him, followed the exploits of his "adopted daughter" on his nightly show.

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