Word: coking
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...investor losses and helping lead popular, triumphant crusades for boardroom and executive-suite overhauls at the New York Stock Exchange and Disney. But earlier this year, CalPERS moved from the spotlight to the hot seat when it withheld support from Coca-Cola director and shareholder hero Warren Buffett because Coke's independent-auditor policy was allegedly too lax. At the time, John Castellani, head of the prestigious Business Roundtable, said the CalPERS attack on Buffett was "an absurdity." Then, when CalPERS targeted management at Safeway Inc., the grocer that took a hard line against Harrigan's union during a strike...
...leave Diet Coke in the fridge over the summer...
...Czechoslovaks drank a copycat cola by that name, with less sugar and half the caffeine of Coca-Cola. It fizzled after communism fell and Western soft drinks became available. But in 1999, a north Moravia company relaunched Kofola. This year, Czech retail sales of Kofola surpassed Pepsi and challenged Coke, which leads the market with a 25% share; in neighboring Slovakia, Kofola is already No. 1. What's its secret? Price, for one: Kofola is 25% cheaper. But Kofola also knows its audience: its award-winning marketing appeals to both communist nostalgia and youthful rebelliousness. "In the postrevolutionary years, people...
...camera stumbles upon a door, it bursts open, the hand of the dying woman drops, a guttural boom blasts from the sub, and that four-dollar bucket of flat Diet Coke resting patiently at your side becomes fizzy and fresh on your lap as you jump—hard. It’s these moments—when some random horrific element comes from nowhere—that make the first act of The Grudge, Hollywood’s latest attempt at remaking a foreign blockbuster, extremely enjoyable. Yet tension gives way to torpor as the first act crawls...
...Summers’ former colleagues from his Treasury days in Washington gave a powerpoint presentation detailing “What it’s like to work for Larry,” and his brother toasted him with a soliloquy: “To Drink or Not Drink Diet Coke...