The new soft drink-like packaging helped fast-track bottled water's growth past milk and beer.

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Banks have the misfortune to be confronting the discounters just when marketplace and legal changes are drying up some of their traditional revenue sources, like packaging subprime mortgages and gouging people with overdraft fees.

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Those secondary assets might include things like aluminum packaging and panels for cars and aircraft, The Times said.

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