Word: cola
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...Cola wars in Thailand
...sometimes determined by who sat in the Oval Office. PepsiCo Chairman Donald Kendall got the right to bottle and sell Pepsi in the Soviet Union in 1972, when his friend Richard Nixon was in the White House. After Jimmy Carter moved to Washington, his old Atlanta pal Coca-Cola Chairman J. Paul Austin captured the exclusive right to sell Coke to a billion Chinese. Rarely, though, has the Coke-Pepsi rivalry gone so far as in Thailand, where it has now led to two deaths...
This was not the first murder in Thailand's cola wars. Two years ago, a Pepsi distributor stabbed a Coke man to death. A court later ruled that the Pepsi employee had acted in self-defense. Such violence is common in provincial Thailand, where political instability has imparted a certain Wild West atmosphere...
...Coca-Cola did in fact contain cocaine until 1906, when the company had to drop the drug from its secret formula...
...points last week, earning Harvard about $3.25 million. Coca-Cola gained a point, adding roughly $100,000 to Harvard's portfolio value. Kodak's gain of 2 7/8 offset the near-$700,000 loss caused by Xerox's 2 1/2-point decline. And AT&T's additional 1 3/4 points netted Harvard about $1.5 million...