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...examined by TIME, show no such payment. Thomas Corcoran, president of the Waterville Valley Resort, told TIME he wrote checks for the airfare, lodging and expenses of the Sununu family and other "celebrity" skiers out of a separate account funded by corporate sponsors of the McAuliffe event. Among them: Coca-Cola, McDonald's and Siemens Nixdorf, the electronics firm that was awarded a $7 million computer contract by the state of New Hampshire while Sununu was Governor...
This dynamic can be best demonstrated by the baneful effects of PC on other elite campuses with less open-minded administrations. Amherst College has forbid the sale of Coca-Cola products on campus because of the corporation's investments in South Africa-despite Coca-Cola's brilliant record of providing scholarships for Black South Africans and other aid for the oppressed non-white majority of that racist regime...
...raises return the favor by handing out higher fees and benefits to the board. Says Graef Crystal, a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley: "Wherever you find highly paid CEOs, you'll find highly paid directors. It's no accident." At Coca- Cola, CEO Roberto Goizueta earned $10.6 million in salary and stock in 1989, more than three times the average for CEOs of the 200 largest U.S. firms (his 1990 compensation: $11.2 million). His board members earned $75,000 in cash and benefits, a solid 70% above the $44,000 average...
...social club for the high IQed, grew tired of his neighbors' loud music and barking dogs. He left a death threat on the door, and when that didn't work he slipped into the Carr family kitchen and laced some thallium nitrite into a pack of 16-oz. Coca-Cola Classic bottles. A few days later Peggy Carr's hair began falling out. Her feet burned, her fingers tingled and her stomach turned. Within a few weeks she was in a coma; three months later she was dead. Her sons and husband also showed symptoms but eventually recovered...
After generations of French colonial rule, the islanders have become dependent on the outside world for most of their food and supplies. Though their diet continues to rely heavily on fish and fruit, they have also begun to appreciate Coca Cola ("le Coca") and bubblegum. Once a week people gather at the tiny airport to greet the plane that carries the week's supply of baguettes...