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...money. Common Cause President Fred Wertheimer notes that PACS have donated $3.7 million to the 56 members of the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees, more than triple the amount contributed by PACs in 1983, the last congressional nonelection year. "We are seeing a classic example of how PACs operate," Wertheimer says. "It is a bald and blatant effort to buy political advantage." NEW YORK/NEW JERSEY A Borderline Case...
...only the sweet taste of success. This year, though, Coke seems unable to do anything right. First the Atlanta-based firm infuriated customers by changing the sacred formula of Coke. Then it had to swallow hard, admit error and bring back the old mixture under the label Coca-Cola Classic. Next the company angered textile workers by marketing a line of Coca-Cola clothes produced overseas. Now Coke is under attack from the sugar industry for allegedly misleading the public about the ingredients of its No. 1 product...
...Washington-based Sugar Association, which represents refiners and processors of sugar beet and cane, spent $235,000 last week to take out anti-Coke newspaper advertisements in 13 major cities. The ads charged that Coca-Cola Classic is not the "real thing" because it is sweetened with corn syrup, while the drink's original formula called for sugar, which is slightly more expensive. Of course, the Sugar Association has a keen financial interest in the sweetener question because its members do not make the corn syrup that is now used in most soft drinks. The decision by beverage companies...
...Cola Drinkers of America and helped lead the successful protest against the new Coke: "Corn syrup is like lead in my stomach. It doesn't give me the lift. It makes me sleepy." But industry analysts perceive no difference. Says Montgomery Securities' Emanuel Goldman: "Original and Coca-Cola Classic are one and the same thing...
Right after that classic nightmare of having forgotten to study for the exam comes the horrific vision of taking the test only to have the answer sheet lost. Last week in New York City the vision became reality. Portions of 542 New York bar examinations, which for the would-be lawyers who had just taken them were the culmination of years of graduate study, disappeared from the state board of law examiners' offices. The deeply abashed three-member board alerted police and quickly notified the unlucky 542 out of the 6,562 tested. "There is no way to express...