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...arid American Southwest. Made only by Eli Lilly, the giant Indianapolis chemical company, Spike attacks woody plants for up to three years. After searching for several years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture discovered that Spike not only kills weeds but may be the first effective herbicide against the hardy coca plant, the source of cocaine...
...vintage Rogers. He is enlisting the aid of other unions, thus turning one company's dispute into a national issue. He is leading consumer boycotts, demonstrations and letter-writing campaigns against companies who have directors who also sit on IP's board. Thus the targets include Avon Products, Coca-Cola, Bank of Boston and the PNC Financial Corp. of Pittsburgh. In some cases, the leverage will be strong. At Rogers' urging, a district council of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is threatening to withdraw $15 million from a banking subsidiary of PNC. Reason: W. Craig McClelland...
...advertisers. PepsiCo, which had a virtual monopoly on Soviet cola sales until 1984, faces competition from Coca-Cola, now sold in eleven Soviet cities. Visa cards will be issued to Soviet citizens who travel abroad later this year. Sony's products are available only in stores that require payment in hard currency...
...networks have dropped 22 scheduled episodes in all, including the season's last new episodes of L.A. Law and The Cosby Show. Moonlighting scrapped its special-effects finale, some ten minutes of which was to be broadcast in 3-D. That has left one of its sponsors, Coca- Cola, with 40 million unused pairs of 3-D eyeglasses it had planned to distribute...
...drug to chase the blues, relax on social occasions and, as he wrote to his future bride, make himself feel like a "big wild man." The substance did cause him ego problems when another physician beat him to the journals with his findings on the pain-killing properties of coca. His own paper on the subject was well received, but as he wrote in an 1884 letter to his sister-in-law, "the cocaine business has indeed brought me much honor, but the lion's share to others...