Word: coca-cola
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...especially American kids--face. In 2000 the average child watched 40,000 commercials, double the number in 1970, and many of the ads were for just the kinds of nutritional junk that's causing so many of our problems. The $2 billion--plus marketing budget of a company like Coca-Cola dwarfs even the $500 million over five years being spent on childhood obesity by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation...
...This year, investors filed nearly three dozen proposals for independent chairmen, at companies like Pfizer, Citigroup, Verizon, General Electric, Coca-Cola and Time Warner (parent company of TIME). So far those votes have only garnered an average 32% support, though some annual meetings remain. "Many of the problems surrounding poor governance stem from management accruing too much power," says Paul Hodgson, senior research associate at The Corporate Library, a governance and compensation research firm. "If you split the roles of CEO and chairman, you get this balance of power in the boardroom. A strong chairman can stand...
...remove the word Coca from Coca-Cola and just leave Cola. It's ludicrous.' ARYE BARAK, spokesman for an Israeli movie distributor, on requests by religious authorities that the word sex be removed from ads for the movie Sex and the City, which opens in Israel...
...annual meeting went on as usual. There was Buffett onstage with his trademark can of Coke--he used to prefer Pepsi, but that would be bad form now that he owns nearly a tenth of Coca-Cola. Next to him was Munger, his friend since 1959, whose acerbic attitude and tendency to soapbox only underscored Buffett's imperturbability...
...coffee shop scene, the male protagonist, Joe, is sounding out a Coca-Cola jingle he wrote recently when a siren drowns out his conversation with his friend Alli. The camera leaves the two actors and follows the speeding ambulance through the window, though their voices continue in the background. The camera cuts back to Alli, who says, “I think someone just died hearing your jingle.” The moment—both the ambulance passing and the actor’s response—was completely improvised...