Word: colas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from view because in the end what was revolutionary about Michael Jordan was not what he accomplished on the court but what he achieved off it. Jordan earned $4 million a year putting a ball through a hoop, but he made about eight times that for selling sneakers, cars, cola, cereal, hamburgers and underwear. In the past few years he was not a basketball star who played at business but a businessman who played basketball. His leaping, legs-splayed silhouette became as famous around the world as the large-eared shadow of another corporate and entertainment icon, Mickey Mouse. Until...
...sure way to boost demand for whatever is coming: better symbols on products showing their recycled content. The National Recycling Coalition, based in Washington, has persuaded 25 large industrial companies, including Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, AT&T, McDonald's and Johnson & Johnson, to back a "Buy Recycled" movement. The Environmental Protection Agency is about to launch a "Buy Wa$te Wi$e" campaign, urging consumers and manufacturers to favor recycled goods. "The public must get away from the idea that merely putting items in containers at the curb is recycling," says David Dougherty, director of the Clean Washington Center...
...seems to have lost any moral significance on account of its fruitless search for formal purity. Meaning and ornament . . . have been marginalized . . . The black square painting is a goal that can appeal only to very few aesthetes. Not only the black square but equally the crushed automobile, the Coca-Cola can, and other examples of Western cultural detritus, all threaten to take over the world...
...Royal Academy of Arts in London. It contained some 230 works by 65 artists, spanning the period from 1913 to 1993. Among these were, as you might expect, quite a few of those black squares (Ad Reinhardt, 1913-67), crushed autos (John Chamberlain, born 1927) and Coca-Cola cans (Guess Who, 1928-87) spurned by the cultural critic of Beijing. And, again as you might expect, they are sympathetically, even rhapsodically treated in the catalog, written in part by the show's curators -- Christos Joachimides in Berlin and Norman Rosenthal, the exhibitions secretary of the Royal Academy. "The time...
...past year Lotus, Microsoft, Tambrands and 24 other U.S. firms have opened offices, established subsidiaries or placed representatives in South Africa. "We get calls every day from companies that are thinking about going back in," reports William Moses, an analyst at the Investor Responsibility Research Center in Washington. Coca-Cola is said to be close to announcing a deal to set up manufacturing operations in the country...