Word: canadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...entire Ezeji-Okoye family headed to Canada in 1970, after Steve's rather rejoined the family. A few years later, the future track captain returned to England to attend Clifton College, a secondary school, and it was there that he started competing in the hurdles...
Thirsty Americans will get their first taste of the new Coke, packed in white- and-red cans bearing the word NEW on a silver strip, this month. Within five weeks the drink should be available almost everywhere in the U.S. and Canada. The debut will be accompanied by a huge advertising campaign reviving the I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke theme song that was wildly popular in the early 1970s. In one of the first commercials, Comedian Bill Cosby, dressed as an archaeologist and surrounded by relics, quips, "If you're a Pepsi drinker, well, maybe that...
From 1981 to 1984 in 25 cities in the U.S. and Canada, Coke tested the taste on more than 190,000 consumers. The new Coke flavor beat the old one by 55% to 45%. When those same people were told what they were tasting, their preference for the new flavor was even more pronounced, 61% to 39%. The new flavor also won handily by as much as 56% to 44% against Pepsi, says one trade source...
Europe is traditionally the main overseas attraction. Last year a record 5.6 million Americans flocked there--more than 2 million to Britain alone--and estimates this year run to well over 6 million, some up to 7 million. (By comparison, 33 million Americans crossed the border into Canada in 1984 to spend the falling Canadian dollar; 4 million visited Mexico, where the peso has suffered three big devaluations since 1982; and 5 million frolicked in the Caribbean...
...Third World war, he sensibly observes, "While the Soviets want the world, they do not want war." To critics who say that strengthening Third World economies will only add to the competitive pressure on American industry, he points out that the best current customers for U.S. products are industrialized Canada and Japan. In an inspirational final summons to "a peaceful revolution for progress in the Third World," Nixon brings back to mind the far-seeing foreign policy analyst whom Watergate, and Viet Nam, destroyed...