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...Coca-Cola, McDonalds and Levi's Jeans are the magic words in a land that is being overrun by American consumerism: Coke is served at every meal, the golden arches sit imperiously on every few city blocks and entire stores are dedicated to the purchase of los blue jeans...
...once said. But acquaintances of his in Alexandria also describe the Fayeds as a modest family: al Fayed's father was a language teacher, and al Fayed grew up on the rougher side of town. He started as a small-time trader there, selling Singer sewing machines and Coca-Cola. In the early 1950s the future Saudi billionaire Adnan Khashoggi offered al Fayed a share in a Khashoggi business that exported Egyptian-made furniture to Saudi Arabia. The company took off, and not long after, al Fayed married Khashoggi's sister Samira, who gave birth to Dodi...
...America, a ubiquitous vehicle in suburban driveways across the country. But compared to the European smooth-curved cars flooding the market, the old Taurus was beginning to look boxy. Tampering with it was ultimately necessary, but also immensely dangerous: as Mary Walton writes in Car, it was "like reformulating Coca-Cola...
...Individual investors begin buying the hardest-hit stocks, and the market stabilizes; Coca-Cola schedules a press conference...
...unlikely that such a small percentage is dominating the index. The other 90%, which presumably has made reasoned judgments about value, has a lot more to say about where the S&P 500 is going. Yes, prices relative to earnings on big stocks like General Electric and Coca-Cola are the highest they've ever been. That smacks of mindless index buying, not buying based on value. But Blu Putnam, president of CDC Investments, a money-management firm, notes that blue chips deserve the high P/Es because they have doubled their rate of earnings growth over the past five years...