Word: coked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Almost spill Coke on myself...
...When Vicky celebrates with friends, she stays sober. "My sister, my girlfriend, and I went out," she remembered. "We were of age to drink, but we just watched our other friends drink. Some girls got so drunk, they had to sit in the corner. The rest of us had Coke. Or you know what I drink?"--Vicky flashed her trademark grin--"I drink pina colalda, but without the alcohol," she said. "And I watch them sit in the corner and I dance and dance and dance." Now she stays at home with Katerina. "We're going to be home this...
...hasn't had much influence on 276 million Americans. In 1997 we gave a collective heave-ho to more than 430 billion lbs. of garbage. That means each man, woman and child tossed out an average of nearly 1,600 lbs. of banana peels, Cheerios boxes, gum wrappers, Coke cans, ratty sofas, TIME magazines, car batteries, disposable diapers, yard trimmings, junk mail, worn-out Nikes--plus whatever else goes into your trash cans. An equivalent weight of water could fill 68,000 Olympic-size pools...
...college, and 85% ended up at one of their top two choices. In the past two years, the California company has boomed from one center to nine and plans to expand to 250 across the U.S. in the next 18 months. "We want to be a brand name like Coke," says Carlos Watson, the company's co-founder...
...quickly, U.S. brands could soon completely overrun their markets with new waves of licensed goods. Even a pioneer like Coca-Cola, which has been licensing in Europe since 1986, views the continent as wide-open territory. "We feel like we've only scratched the surface in Europe," says Coke spokeswoman Susan McDermott. Equity Management, the largest U.S. licensing agency, which handles licensing chores that include research, legal work and quality control for its client corporations, gives some measure of the new American interest in landing on European soil. Most of Equity's 100 or so clients are eyeing Continental markets...