Word: cola
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Clearly, Issue Hyper-Sensitivity had been interfering in such Dartmouth-like activities as drinking beer, skiing, and drinking beer. But no more. At Harvard, drinking a cola made by a company that operates in South Africa might be a way to show one's opposition to divestment. At Dartmouth, even demonstrations and petitions are too subtle. To get a point across at the Big Green, one sledgehammers activist shanties in the pre-dawn darkness...
Whether it is diet Coke, new Coke, classic Coke, cherry Coke or some other soda, more soft-drink fans buy something sold by Coca-Cola than by any other beverage maker. No. 2 PepsiCo keeps trying hard to catch up, and last week the company may have found a way to do so. Pepsi announced an agreement to buy Seven-Up, the third-largest soft-drink manufacturer, from Philip Morris for $380 million. As part of the deal, Philip Morris retains Seven-Up's bottling plants and food division. By adding Seven-Up's 7% share of the $26 billion...
...industry not find a necessity to reform their product? A distinet possibility is the nature of their product, that of creating addiction. The customers were addicted to the product and had no choice to change their habits. The consumer did not have the free will he had during the cola wars. Sure, soft drinks are addictive (through not nearly as addictive as cigarettes), but the soft drinks industry responded to this concern and came out with products which lacked caffeine. Regarding soft drinks, the consumer now has a choice for his consumption; regarding cigarettes, the consumer has no choice...
Because of campus-wide controversy over Coca-Cola's business ties to South Africa, the Board of Control of UCLA's student store (ASUCLA) has launched a poll to determine whether students want them to keep serving Coke in their restuarants...
...Reed, executive director of the ASUCLA, said that they would be collecting feedback until "February or March", when the Board will hand down its decision. Mcanwhile, an educational campaign to help students make up their minds was planned, with a week of campus forums offered by ASUCLA, the Coca-Cola Company and faculty and students in November...