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Studies have shown that, when people are served more food, they eat more.  Upgrading to larger serving sizes (a.k.a., “super-sizing”) often increases food prices modestly but substantially increases calorie and fat content.  A comparable financial example is consumers who are extended a higher credit line on a credit card.  Some charge more than they did [...]

The hallmark of the contract manufacturing industry is a new type of relationships between brand-name firms (OEM) and their contractors in manufacturing, resulting from vertical specialization in the most advanced sectors of the computer and telecommunications industry. The brief history of the CM-industry during the 1990 reflects the trend of vertical disintegration (for an in-depth [...]

The trend towards large-scale manufacturing co-operations of high diversity fosters vertical re-integration on the part of contract manufacturers. Major CM have acquired specialized design and manufacturing capabilities in components and software as well as in supply-chain-management and logistics. A company like Solectron owns sophisticated technology subsidiaries in the field of ASIC- and chip set design. [...]

With almost two-thirds of Americans having “weight issues” and well over one million bankruptcies filed annually by consumers for almost a decade, health and financial problems have gone “mainstream” and are more tolerated, if not accepted, by society.  When many people are doing the same thing or have the same characteristics, it is hard to [...]