Word: cola
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like blue jeans, Pepsi-Cola and vintage jazz, Western rock 'n' roll has long since penetrated the Soviet Union. The original impetus came in the '60s with bootlegged records, cassettes and sources like the Voice of America, which beams in roughly an hour a day of rock...
...spelling under the Pinyin system) is now a vast building site. Construction crews stir dust as they dig sewers, build roads and prepare foundations for factories and apartment buildings. Local women wearing skintight jeans made in Hong Kong sell U.S. and British cigarettes and cans of Coca-Cola from roadside stalls. Hackies hustle bewildered visitors, demanding as much as $65 an hour for riding in their dilapidated Japanese-made taxis...
Once wary businessmen are quickly pouring money into a bewildering array of enterprises. These include textile-dyeing plants, large-scale pig- and poultry-raising operations, hotels, shipbuilding yards and even a Pepsi-Cola bottling plant. The LMK Group, a Hong Kong textile and garment maker, has invested $14 million in a large dyeing factory in Shenzhen that will employ 250 workers. Managing Director Eddie Lo predicts that LMK will have an output of 6 million yards a month by mid-October, and he already foresees expanding the operation to include spinning, weaving and garment making...
...with fast food but that probably summed up why people supported the Viet Nam War: "Let's start buildin' our world/ Let's stop puttin' it down/ Let's start livin' our dream/ Make the whole world our town." Royal Crown Cola suggested that "me"-decade selfishness was really an aristocratic demand for perfection: "What's good enough for other folks/ Ain't good enough for/ Me and my RC." Datsun started capitalizing in 1977 on the American obsession with Japan's supposed workaholism and business acumen via "Datsun...
...heard, yet sound as if it has been around forever. The tunes sometimes become so popular that they are sold as records. The public bought a million copies of I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing in 1971, while a slightly different version-Coca Cola's I'd Like to Buy the World a Coke-was saturating the air waves free. Some tunes are adapted from classics. Some, like Steve Karmen's I Love New York, are endlessly repeatable four-note phrases. Last year New York Times Music Writer Edward Rothstein confessed that...