Word: coking
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Buying bottled water has become a problem. I will not buy Dasani or Poland Spring because both Coca-Cola and Nestle, their respective producers, employ inhumane business practices abroad. Coke has robbed farms and communities in India of precious groundwater and allegedly condoned the assassination of union leaders in Colombia. Nestle has capitalized on the fears of HIV/AIDS-infected mothers in Africa, urging them to buy formula for their children, which often results in these children’s deaths because of missed nutrition from the lack of breastfeeding. The only way that I can tangibly influence the market against...
Choosing to join a large-scale boycott is not as simple as connecting the dots between Coke’s inhumane practices and a decision to no longer drink Coke. This simplistic view is an easy and naive way for consumers to feel good about their buying power and ability to influence the market because it ignores potentially adverse consequences. Assuming a boycott has the strength to hurt a company’s profits, thoughtful consumers must consider the implications of the “success” of boycotting Coke for its reprehensible actions...
...easy forYahoo!, the Internet's most durable portal, to play Pepsi to Google's Coke. But if Yahoo! continues to fall further behind Google in ad sales, the company may find itself stuck a perennial second--or worse. With its stock down 36% last year and ad sales failing to keep up with Google's, Yahoo!'s reputation has suffered as Google's stock has soared...
...would be understandable ifBulgaria--ancient Roman annex, Ottoman Empire conquest, Soviet Union satellite--wasn't all that welcoming to foreigners. But there I was in Sofia, on my way to the public drinking fountains where locals fill up old Coke bottles with hot mineral water, when a lady pointed out that the bottle of wine I was carrying had broken through its plastic bag. I tucked the bottle back in as best I could and said thank you--good deed done, as far as I was concerned--but the woman kept cheerily talking in Bulgarian as she emptied...
...Back in the day, your operating system was a big deal. It was who you were. Mac vs. Windows was like Catholic vs. Protestant, or Republican vs. Democrat, and about as rational. Now it's somewhere down around Coke vs. Pepsi. Microsoft is still winning the battles - the iPod "halo effect" notwithstanding, Apple is hovering at about a 5% market share - but no one's getting worked up about the war. So many of the file-compatibility issues have been solved, and so much computing goes on in the browser anyway. So who cares...