Word: coke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...shabby city of Agra. From afar, the Taj Mahal is as beautiful as the poets promise?a glowing tribute to obsessive adoration and a symbol of India around the world. But up close the picture begins to crumble. Acid rain and condensation from the former Mughal capital's coke-fueled factories and, environmentalists say, a nearby oil refinery are eating away the marble and turning what remains the color of unloved teeth. The famous canals and watercourses stink. Garbage abounds. And attempts at preservation have proved ineffectual, clumsy and lacking in either funds or purpose. Common is the visitor...
...crack epidemic began in the 1980s, harried cops had no time to construct elaborate criminal profiles. Simple ones would suffice. In 1983 the Illinois state police began targeting cocaine couriers in and around Chicago. Going after low-level couriers is a shockingly inefficient way to fight drugs, but coke was spreading around the city quickly, and politicians demanded action. Most of the couriers the state police initially caught were young Hispanic men who, when questioned during traffic stops, didn't have a good answer about where they were going...
...being mostly cheap to cover, the stories have been riveting human drama, with widely varying degrees of historical importance. Who would say the nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court was not historically important? All right, but what was the historical importance of a "pubic hair on a Coke...
...Some banks made money, some lost. Pepsi scored, Coke disappointed. Some techs went up, some (OK, most) went down. The PC market is so bad that Dell is getting into routers. And in an example that, yes, this column was watching with particular interest, AOL Time Warner beat earnings expectations but was deemed to have done it all through cost-cutting and accounting magic, and so was beaten by traders like a mule that was not only rented but over-dependent on the moribund ad market...
...will soon be digitally inserting products, not just brand names, into syndicated and prime-time programming. PVI is already negotiating with TNT (owned by TIME's parent, AOL Time Warner) and Studios USA to do virtual product placements on reruns of Law and Order this fall. A Coke machine could appear in the precinct background, or a Saltines box could sit on the D.A.'s desk...