Word: cokes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Peach Pit is now serving tall skinny lattes. On Beverly Hills, 90210, the suspiciously unlined mother of all teen soaps, which ran from 1990 to 2000, even the richest kids were happy with an after-school Coke at the retro diner. Not so on just plain 90210, an extreme makeover of the '90s show debuting Sept. 2 on the CW network with new characters and - in teen years - a geologic era's worth of social and cultural updates...
...beverage side, Cadbury was equally handicapped. The company sold its rights to Dr Pepper outside North America to rival Coke and Lion Blackstone in 1999, which made it difficult to compete head to head with international powerhouses like Pepsi--and Coke. "We really can't go back on the deal," says Larry Young, a 30-year Pepsi veteran who was coaxed out of retirement to head the beverage business. "I don't think you'd ever get Coke to sell it back. If I were them, I wouldn...
...moments like that one--when coke and kids mix, brought together in Carr's life and his language--that you realize how successfully he has woven his tale. If the reporting device started out as a "fig leaf," to keep him from obsessing about "adding to a growing pile of junkie memoirs," it doesn't end up that way. The Night of the Gun is in part a writerly exercise in defense and disarmament--memoir in the throes of an existential crisis. But that does not prevent it from being a great read. This is largely because, in using...
...late on a summer afternoon, and Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is sipping a Diet Coke in his giant corner office a patch away from the White House and doling out career advice. His secret to success? "You define your job expansively...
...pour over letters, news articles, and websites, searching for a story and feeling ownership over what I had done. Rather than honing my photocopying skills, I will leave Minnesota with something concrete to show for my long hours spent indoors, my blistered feet, and the tower of empty Diet Coke cans that seems to be developing on my desk...