Introduction This is a comparative study based on articles written in the New York Times and The Nation regarding the manufacture of Monokote by the W. R. Grace Corporation and tetraethyl lead (TEL) by the Ethyl Corporation. Although dissimilar products, they used similar business strategies to promote their product’s use. While the economic reasons for the production of their products satisfied a “need” and provided substantial “profit”, each company and their supporting industries implemented …showed first 75 words of 2601 total…

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