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- Dec. 28, 1992: The Clear Alternative
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Dec. 28, 1992 What Does Science Tell Us About God?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 17
- BUSINESS
- The Clear Alternative
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- <p>Colorless products aim to capture the clean generation
- </p>
- <p> Let's be absolutely clear about this: if you can see through
- it, it's got to be good. Take underarm deodorants. There's Ban
- Clear and Mennen Lady Speed Stick Crystal Clean. No more of that
- opaque green stuff. Dishpan hands these days go for Procter &
- Gamble's lucid Liquid Ivory--clear soap in a clear bottle--over white Ivory detergent. Booze? Vodka is in, or maybe a glass
- of light white wine, or a beer in a clear glass bottle.
- </p>
- <p> The trend, a reflection of the nation's prohealth,
- proenvironment leanings, has also invaded the $48 billion
- soft-drink market. Coca-Cola has the latest entry: Tab Clear,
- a colorless, calorie-free version of its 29-year-old diet drink.
- Coke says it's being positioned as a "mainstream cola," though
- it will have to swim against Crystal Pepsi, a low-sodium,
- no-preservative version of the industry's second-best-selling
- soft drink, as well as a pack that includes 30 other transparent
- rivals, such as 7-Up, Sprite and, for the real back-to-basics
- crowd, water.
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