Word: colas
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PepsiCo is a parent corporation for six operating divisions which include Pepsi-Cola, Frito-Lay and Taco Bell...
Debate supporters generally reply in effect: If you think debates are bad, just try imagining what electronic-era campaigns would be like without them. "Most Americans," says Harvard Political Scientist Gary Orren, "would get their political information from two sources: either from the Pepsi-Cola-like ads that the candidates put out-and boy, they're getting good at it!-or through little snippets that are no longer than 1 min. 20 sec. on the nightly TV news." For all their artificiality, the debates offer voters a rare chance to see the candidates in a situation they...
This summer break dancers have appeared in commercials for McDonald's, Pepsi-Cola and Mountain Dew. R.H. Bruskin, a New Jersey market research firm, estimates that some 30% of U.S. teen-agers have tried break dancing. The company does not estimate how many of them may have broken an arm or a leg in the process. But would-be breakers no longer have to risk aches and sprains to get their kicks. A Silicon Valley firm, Epyx, has marketed a video game called Breakdance. Its joystick-controlled hero, named Hot Feet, knows more than 400 different moves...
...preserve of private colleges. The University of California, Los Angeles, will inaugurate an unprecedented drive for $200 million in November. The University of Georgia, which celebrates its 200th anniversary next year, is wrapping up a first-time campaign that has raised $63 million, including $1 million from Coca-Cola. The University of Illinois enlisted Alumnus John Chancellor to star in a 19-city teleconference as part of an effort that has raised $109 million. Observes Hayden Smith, senior vice president of the Council for Financial Aid to Education: "Competition between public and private higher-education institutions is getting fierce." Cornell...
...example, know that most elderly people tend to have more confidence in the Democrats as protectors of their Social Security and other retirement benefits. Thus President Reagan announced at his July 24 press conference that he would ask Congress to pass legislation granting a cost of living adjustment (COLA) next year to Social Security beneficiaries even if inflation falls below 3%, which now seems possible. He did so although the bipartisan compromise package passed in 1983 by Congress to keep the program solvent stated that no COLA should be made if inflation is 2.9% or lower. Reagan lavishly praised...