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...community, not citizens of Cambridge, to socialize. It should be a student center with occasional performances and other forms of entertainment; but, most importantly, it should provide a low-key meeting place where people can talk or study while simultaneously enjoying a tasty snack or, soon, an ice-cold Coke. For it to accomplish this end, though, Loker Commons cannot service an unlimited number of people. To the extent that residents of Cambridge and students at Rindge and Latin cause Loker Commons to become more crowded, noisy and frenetic, the environment becomes less conducive to studying and informal gathering...
...gave me great satisfaction not to give in." On another occasion the mother, provoked beyond reason during a fast-food jaunt, locked her son in the car trunk. When she opened it again, he cheerily placed his order for "a cheeseburger without meat, French fries and a Coke...
...raining in Sydney, Australia, and Franklin Graham is nervous. Once he might have slugged back a Scotch; now a diet Coke will have to do. It is always tough being a stand-in, and worse still if you're substituting for a legend. In fact, when illness forced his father out of this series of revival meetings, the organizing committee in Sydney simply dissolved itself. Ultimately another group decided to take a chance on Franklin but moved the revival from a downtown venue that could have held 50,000 people to an open, grass amphitheater--no seats, just turf--with...
...products fighting it out on the shelves--it can get ugly when Cap'n Crunch takes on Count Chocula at the A&P--lower prices would seem to be a natural result. Yet competition hasn't worked that way with cereals, though it has in other categories. (Prices of Coke and Pepsi are cheaper in real terms than they were a decade ago.) That is because the cereal manufacturers have been using consumers to finance what has become a very expensive marketing war. So as prices inflate, the companies use the additional money--about $1 a box--to advertise...
...company has more modest aims for Snapple, which has less than 5% of the soft-drink market and tons of competitors. Quaker is spending $40 million on a series of humorous TV spots that alternately praise rival colas and stress Snapple's determination "to be No. 3"--behind Coke and Pepsi, that is. For stockholders, it's no longer a joking matter...