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That was 16 years ago, but spending time with Alison brings it all flooding back: the static and crackle of bed linen, the pulpy cardboard bedpans, the smell of detergent.
Its narrow aisles overflowed with cheap goods stacked on shelves and stuffed onto over-loaded racks: gallon-sized bottles of detergent on sale for $4, frosted-glass chess sets for $5, a large package of cotton socks for $5, and a four-foot inflatable ghost for $10.The Midwest, a friend from Michigan once told me, could not survive without Wal-Mart and other such bargain retailers.
To interpret the statute otherwise, the chief justice smiled, "would sweep in everything from the detergent under the kitchen sink to the stain remover in the laundry room", turning the poisoning of goldfish with "a few drops of vinegar" into an act of chemical combat.
Shoppers may not be able to afford Dior dresses or Cartier watches, went the argument, but they still need loo paper and detergent.
Unilever owns such successful cosmetic brands as Calvin Klein and Dove bodycare; P&G, best known for Pampers nappies and Tide detergent , owns Pantene, the global leader in shampoo, Max Factor and Olay, a fast-growing and, by P&G standards, high-priced skin-care range.
Their dream is to sell beer like premium-priced detergent , using uniform global marketing campaigns organised from head office.
Mr Galvin departed in September after his relationship with the board turned sour.One hundred years after the Wright brothers took to the air in a canvas and wood contraption, Boeing began taking orders for the 7E7, a plane made mainly out of ultra-light composite materials.Cleaning upHenkel agreed to pay $2.9 billion for Dial, an American detergent manufacturer.
P&G's big push in India over the past couple of years was hugely expensive, including launching a price war between Tide, its venerable detergent brand, and rivals such as Unilever's Surf and Rin.
Among its biggest brands are Knorr (soup), Hellmann's (mayonnaise), Lipton (tea), Rexona and Axe (deodorants), Omo (laundry detergent ) and Sunsilk (shampoo).
Someone in Havana can expect (but doesn't always get) a daily bread roll the size of a hamburger bun, six pounds (2.7kg) of rice a month, five or six of sugar, three of beans, a dozen eggs, half a pound of cooking oil, a few ounces of coffee and of butter, occasionally a bit of sausage, some matches, rarely a little foamless toothpaste, odourless soap and harsh detergent.
He had never handled detergent before, and was allergic.
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The primary grammatical function of "detergent" is as a noun , referring to a cleaning agent. Examples from Ludwig show it used in contexts ranging from laundry to industrial applications, consistent with Ludwig AI's assessment.
Expression frequency: Very common
