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Since he became chairman of Coca-Cola (1981 sales: more than $6 billion) last March, Cuban-born Roberto Goizueta has added new life to the once staid and secretive company. He has revitalized sales and marketing efforts and erased a lead that Pepsi-Cola had opened in the crucial race for grocery store business. Last week he uncapped his most stunning announcement: the Atlanta-based bottler will spend about $820 million in cash and stock to buy Columbia Pictures (1981 sales: $686.6 million...
...Anyway, who are we Americans to tell other peoples what they may or may not have? Wouldn't you just love for e.g. an Indian, or an Albanian, to tell Americans they can't have Coca-Cola and cigarettes, because they cannot use them safely...
This open-door policy initially appeared to be a success. First-class hotels began springing up everywhere, and companies from Coca-Cola to Pierre Cardin established plants to take advantage of the cheap labor. Egypt became a magnet for tourists, who spent $800 million there last year...
...with a crowd of your friends and pick up the Mass Pike across the river near the Coca-Cola factory. Follow the Pike (interstate route 90) west to exit 9 in Sturbridge. If you're doing 60 mph, this first leg will take just under an hour...
...Shenzhen (the new spelling under the Pinyin system) is now a vast building site. Construction crews stir dust as they dig sewers, build roads and prepare foundations for factories and apartment buildings. Local women wearing skintight jeans made in Hong Kong sell U.S. and British cigarettes and cans of Coca-Cola from roadside stalls. Hackies hustle bewildered visitors, demanding as much as $65 an hour for riding in their dilapidated Japanese-made taxis...