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...smugglers off at the source by persuading producing countries to root out their drug crops. Yet despite an increase in cooperation from such nations as Thailand and Peru, many developing countries have mixed feelings about eradication programs because their peasants earn far more money cultivating opium poppies or coca plants than they would get from corn or cotton. Bolivia, for example, earns $1 billion a year from cocaine, its largest export...
Last week, in a corporate-style engagement, Coca-Cola agreed to buy Dr Pepper (1985 profits: $60.6 million) from Forstmann Little, a New York-based investment banking firm, for $470 million. The deal is a retaliatory salvo in an ongoing soft- drink war. Only five weeks ago, PepsiCo announced that it was buying Seven-Up for $380 million. That takeover will give Pepsi about 34% of the $30 billion soft-drink market. By acquiring Dr Pepper, Coke will increase its industry-leading share...
Bountiful is not a film aimed at a college audience, but it is worth seeing nonetheless. One leaves the theater with a beautiful sense of the grandeur, contradictions, and irony in the landscape and society of Texas. We see women with beehive hairdos who drink Coca-Colas at the corner drugstore juxtaposed with the despair of fertile farmland gone...
Whether it is diet Coke, new Coke, classic Coke, cherry Coke or some other soda, more soft-drink fans buy something sold by Coca-Cola than by any other beverage maker. No. 2 PepsiCo keeps trying hard to catch up, and last week the company may have found a way to do so. Pepsi announced an agreement to buy Seven-Up, the third-largest soft-drink manufacturer, from Philip Morris for $380 million. As part of the deal, Philip Morris retains Seven-Up's bottling plants and food division. By adding Seven-Up's 7% share of the $26 billion...
...Reed, executive director of the ASUCLA, said that they would be collecting feedback until "February or March", when the Board will hand down its decision. Mcanwhile, an educational campaign to help students make up their minds was planned, with a week of campus forums offered by ASUCLA, the Coca-Cola Company and faculty and students in November...