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<text id=92TT2899>
<title>
Dec. 28, 1992: The Clear Alternative
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Dec. 28, 1992 What Does Science Tell Us About God?
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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THE WEEK, Page 17
BUSINESS
The Clear Alternative
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<p>Colorless products aim to capture the clean generation
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<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.
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<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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