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An investment company is pressuring Chicago-based Tootsie Roll Industries Tootsie Roll Industries (NYSE: TR) is a manufacturer of confectionery in the United States. Its best-known products have been Tootsie Rolls (chewy chocolate-flavoured candies), and Tootsie Pops (hard candy lollipops filled with chewy chocolate-flavoured Tootsie Rolls).  to take a picture of a young boy wearing a headdress headdress, head covering or decoration, protective or ceremonial, which has been an important part of costume since ancient times. Its style is governed in general by climate, available materials, religion or superstition, and the dictates of fashion.  and holding a bow and arrow bow and arrow, weapon consisting of two parts; the bow is made of a strip of flexible material, such as wood, with a cord linking the two ends of the strip to form a tension from which is propelled the arrow; the arrow is a straight shaft with a sharp point on one  off the wrapper of its famous Tootsie Pop, reports the Feb. 18 Crain's Chicago Business. Shareholders of Bethesda, Md.-based Calvert Asset Management, which has a small investment in Tootsie toot·sie  
n. Slang
1. Toots.

2. A girl or young woman.

3. or toot·sy A person's foot.



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 Roll, have a policy that calls for respecting the rights of indigenous people. Nikki Daruwala, a Calvert research analyst, said the leaders of several Native American groups told her company that the image was offensive. Tootsie Roll has successfully fought Calvert's efforts to get shareholders to vote on dropping the image. Tootsie Roll declined to comment.
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Title Annotation:Tootsie Roll Industries pressured to remove Native American image from packaging
Author:Martin, Audra
Publication:The Chicago Reporter
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:Apr 1, 2002
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