Word: coca-cola
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...Mormon teenager in the 1970s, I was constantly admonished by church elders to keep my body strong and pure - free of alcohol, drugs and nicotine, and even of the caffeine in Coca-Cola. My spiritual health, according to church doctrine, was contingent on my physical health, as if my soul and my bloodstream were connected. These teachings were outlined in the Word of Wisdom, a crucial prophetic revelation given to Joseph Smith, the church's founder. Smith had a unique conception of God. Far from being some misty omniscient presence, God was a being of flesh, bone and hair...
...trashed my grades in Thursday morning classes. I doubt I missed anything in those courses to rival what the magazine brought: friendships, laughter, a satisfying sense of growing something lasting from the embryonic magazine we’d inherited and discovering you really can get a buzz from mixing Coca-Cola and aspirin in large doses...
...report by market research company ACNielson. The researchers studied hundreds of billion-dollar brands in more than 50 categories including soft drinks, hair care and diapers (a noteworthy omission is cars, which ACNielson does not track), and concluded that only 43 are world renowned. Among them are Fanta soda (Coca-Cola Co.) and Whiskas cat food (Mars), which are popular in Europe, the Middle East and Africa...
...often impressively fluent. Even the French, after decades of trying to muzzle phrases like le weekend, seem weary of the fight. In a poll conducted by the European Commission, 66% of French respondents said oui when asked if all continentals should speak what's dubbed la langue du Coca-Cola...
...rabid fans salivating for the briefest pinch of Potter-news, Warner Brothers will maximize both profit and continued universal interest in the series. Diane Nelson, Warner Bros.’ senior vice president for family entertainment, points out in the New York Times: “We also asked [Coca-Cola] to include a philanthropic component; there’s this huge literacy program that’s part of the Coke campaign. We think this goes to the spirit of what is inherent in the Harry Potter brand. None of this is bad for Coca-Cola, either...