Word: coked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...look at how these devices may eventually be used, Finland offers some interesting insights. At the Helsinki airport, a Coke vending machine has a mobile number instead of a coin slot--dial up the machine and a Coke drops out, with the charge appearing on your phone bill. There's also a Helsinki car wash you can operate without leaving your car: dial...
...Coca-Cola, where unit sales are growing about 8% a year, has a P/E of 51. Microsoft's is 63; Cisco Systems', 78. High-flying Internet stocks have no P/E because they have no "E." Yahoo, the Net-search directory, trades at 73 times revenue. The comparable multiple for Coke...
...said on CNBC that we may be entering a bear market for blue chips. The Dow Jones 30 industrials shed 300 points in a flash. But the real pain came Wednesday, when the market dropped an additional 100 in the time it took me to get a Diet Coke out of the office fridge. That took us down 10% from the recent tops of the Dow and the S&P 500--an ominous benchmark...
...former, according to a spokesman, would be an "unfair and misguided imposition on Mr. Gates's time." On the latter, Microsoft stuck to its well-worn Coke analogy; the source code, it said, was the "software equivalent to the formula for Coca-Cola." Not only that, handing it over would "reveal plans for future operating systems." That's why they want the government experts examining it to agree not to work for Redmond's rivals in the next few years. No, says the government, that would bankrupt them...
...Classic Coke The Real Thing April 23, 1985 What New Coke? The July 10, 1985 name lives on only in business-school case studies...