Despite their name, rare earth elements are â with the exception of the radioactive promethium â relatively plentiful in Earth's crust, with cerium being the 25th most abundant element at 68 parts per million, or as abundant as copper.are earth elements became known to the world with the discovery of the black mineral Ytterbite (renamed to Gadolinite in 1800) by Lieutenant Carl Axel Arrhenius in 1787, at a quarry in the village of Ytterby, Sweden.
In late 1984, he formed the consulting firm Bob Beckel & Associates, or BBA, a lobbying firm which was succeeded in 1985 by BeckelâCowan. In 2002, Beckel managed the campaign of Alan Blinken, the Democratic nominee for United States Senate in Idaho, until he resigned after being targeted for extortion by a prostitute.
Anheuser-Busch, the company behind both Budweiser and Beck's, has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit. The plaintiffs claim the megabrewer misled customers by trumping up Beck's German roots and insinuating that it was an imported beer. Now, for more than 100 years, Beck's has been brewed in Germany. But in 2002, the company was bought up by big international brewers, eventually becoming part of Anheuser-Busch InBev, based in Belgium. And, since 2012, Beck's has also been made in St. Louis, which is definitely not in Germany. Which means the Beck's you buy in the U.S. is definitely not an import. But, the lawsuit claims, that didn't stop Anheuser-Busch from charging import prices.