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...Republicans interpreted an Administration memo leaked Sunday to the Washington Post. The memo, prepared by OMB Director Alice Rivlin, listed revenue-raising options available to help Clinton raise money for deficit cutting and provide universal health care. But the G.O.P. quickly zeroed in on mentions of Social Security COLA adjustments, benefit reductions and payroll deduction hikes. Representative Newt Gingrich (Rep., Georgia) attacked, saying the memo reinforces the feelings of the American people that the Clinton Administration "is an enormous threat to their values, to their pocketbook, to their future." Today the White House was forced to come out swinging with...
...savvy Net surfers have adopted already famous trademarks for their own use. For instance, the address (http://mcdonalds.com) is owned by a writer from Long Island; (http://coke.com) is registered to a fellow in California. Presumably they wouldn't be too upset if McDonald's and Coca-Cola were willing to pay for the privilege of using their own names on the Net. The companies may not have a choice, because it's far from clear whether the law would be on their side in a dispute. (Here, by the way, are a few other potentially useful addresses that hadn...
This particular Sunday, however, Constant is a squeaky-clean presidential candidate out looking for votes in some distant election, dispensing pork- barrel promises, anti-U.S. rhetoric and a little voodoo. His two-car convoy heads for the hamlet of Montrouis, where he stops for cola drinks and conch while shaking the hands of awed peasants. In the town of St. Marc he promises an electrification project, then tucks into a helping of fried goat. Later he rants to farmers about Haiti's exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and promises that FRAPH will poison the water supply...
Even though Coca-Cola's soft drinks outsell those of its main rival, Pepsi, by more than 2 to 1 around the globe and Coke is the most popular single drink with teenagers, the company still wants to beef up its presence in carbonated drinks aimed specifically at teens. Pepsi's Mountain Dew, the most popular such beverage, owns 3.5% of the U.S. soft-drink market, compared with just 0.3% for Coke's citrus counterpart, Mello Yello. "Coke is trying to take it all," says Larry Jabbonsky, editor of the trade journal Beverage World. "Traditionally, Coca-Cola and Pepsi have...
...into the sense of optimism that this generation retains. ("OK-ness," says a campaign slogan, "is the belief that, no matter what, things are going to be OK.") Nor does it hurt that, according to Coke, O.K. is the most widely known phrase around the world -- followed by Coca-Cola...