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...letters on official stationery to top executives that mentioned how many shares of their company stock he held in the state pension fund - and by the way, could they help get a relative a job? In the case of Verizon in 1997, it was for his daughter Marci; at Coca-Cola, for a cousin. It didn't help that McCall was slow to answer the charges, other than to say he wasn't asking for special treatment. But he sent aides to the state archives to scoop up boxes of formerly public letters that he said had been released...
...smile and gesturing with an open liquor bottle, “and said my father was too furious to speak to me.” The girls settle down on the futon that lines one wall, underneath a print rented from the Fogg featuring a voluptuous brunette embracing a Coca-Cola bottle. Evans mixes drinks in varying hues of pink and red for the girls. Someone breaks out the Bailey’s. Simmons tells Von Tobel’s friend from home to gently swish it around in her glass, a technique she learned from...
...brightest spot in a city plagued by chronic electrical power shortages. Meanwhile, across the Yalu River in the Chinese city of Dandong, new, white buildings rise above the riverbank, traffic clogs the streets, and moving walkways roll through a local shopping mall past stores stuffed with Nike shoes and Coca-Cola...
...bullied, threatened or intimidated" by the NCWO, which represents such groups as the American Nurses Association and the League of Women Voters. "We do not intend to become a trophy in their display case," Johnson declaimed. Then, in an unprecedented move, he booted the Masters' sponsors--Citigroup, Coca-Cola and IBM--so the companies wouldn't face criticism by association. The commercial-free move will cost the club some $7 million in forgone revenues...
...corporations run by Augusta's members, however, don't make that distinction. Virtually every FORTUNE 500 CEO has made certain that women and minorities are represented on his or her board of directors. Coca-Cola, which settled a high-profile racial-discrimination case in 2000, tried to intervene with Augusta, but CEO Douglas Daft got nowhere. "We enjoyed our one-year sponsorship of the Masters," the company said in a statement. Citigroup told Burk in a letter that "we have communicated our views privately to the management of the [Masters] tournament. We believe that such a dialogue is the most...