Word: america
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, the most troubling aspect of the Cleveland voucher experiment has nothing to do with test scores and everything to do with the danger that vouchers could undermine the role that public schools have played in American life. Public schools have long held the promise of being America's great equalizer, mixing students of different races, classes and religions in a single student body. At their best, public schools have united diverse groups of students, many of them immigrants, by passing on the nation's shared civic heritage, from George Washington to George Washington Carver. Public schools have the ability...
...commercial airliners, and we'll all be flying around in roomy comfort like Forstmann on his Gulfstream. Politics is at the heart of the debate over who gets what and who pays for it--whether a free nonsectarian school is one of the gifts of being born in America...
...Pepsi's concentrate and bottling setup looking a lot more like Coke's. "It's a better mousetrap," Enrico concedes with a grin. "And there's no pride in this, so why not do it ourselves?" To add to his new mix, Enrico last August spent $3.3 billion on America's leading premium juicemaker, Tropicana. Last year PepsiCo had total sales of $22.3 billion...
...Coke is to sodas. Frito accounts for two-thirds of Pepsi's sales and profits, and it is one of the most efficient companies in the world at getting products to retail via its truck routes. In the past, Pepsi did little to leverage Frito's commanding position as America's premier snack company. Now it intends to use Frito's muscle as a wedge for all PepsiCo products...
Pepsi hopes to make its greatest gains in the U.S. this summer, when it unleashes a marketing blitz tied to the Star Wars prequel The Phantom Menace. Pepsi will spend around $2 billion exercising its exclusive boasting rights to America's favorite slice of fantasyland. There will be collectible Pepsi cans emblazoned with Star Wars characters and gold "Yoda" cans of Mountain Dew, not to mention surprises in bags of Frito snacks...