Word: colas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Warren Buffett took control of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., in 1965, the stock was worth less than $20. With prudent investments in blue-chip companies such as Coca-Cola and Capital Cities/ABC, Buffett drove BH into the low thirties--$30,000, that is. By refusing to split the stock into smaller units, Buffett effectively kept speculators at bay, until a few cagey money managers figured out that they could form investment trusts with Berkshire Hathaway shares in their portfolios and then sell fractional units at affordable prices...
...years the building has been show-biz ground zero, a hot zone where Ovitz--routinely referred to as "the most powerful man in Hollywood"--built up the town's most imposing list of talent. His masterful, softly menacing style, along with his courtship of nontraditional clients like Coca-Cola and Credit Lyonnais, transformed the old stereotype of the talent agent as a hustling flesh peddler into that of a sleek ninja visionary...
PepsiCo, which owns Taco Bell and Pizza Hut as well as Pepsi-Cola, has been widely criticized for its investments in Burma, a military dictatorship with a questionable human rights record...
...council implemented popular elections, helped pressure the administration to return Coca-Cola to campus, sponsored the Rape Aggression Defense program and the Harvard Alliance for Safety Training and Education, and set up a phone bank to allow students to call their representatives in Washington about financial...
...thinking, for instance, of an actor who showed up wearing a shiny silver garment that peeked out from what looked like the uniform of a cabin boy on an ocean liner. Or one who combined an open-neck shirt of the sort worn by Coca-Cola deliverymen with what appeared to be a tuxedo jacket owned by a much larger man in 1938. In this country, fear of being ridiculed by high school buddies is about the only governor we have left on the behavior of the celebrated; around Oscar night every year, I feel even that slipping away...