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...have just enough" to keep them on board, says Windsor. Expect a tight finish. Ostalgia In A Bottle Things go better with, er, Kofola? Back in the '60s, Czechoslovaks drank a copycat cola by that name, with less sugar and half the caffeine of Coca-Cola. It fizzled after communism fell and Western soft drinks became available. But in 1999, a north Moravia company relaunched Kofola. This year, Czech retail sales of Kofola surpassed Pepsi and challenged Coke, which leads the market with a 25% share; in neighboring Slovakia, Kofola is already No. 1. What's its secret? Price...
Mathergrad: Communism on Campusb
...addition to being one of the most important and cutting-edge examples of 1950s film noir, Pickup highlights the disparity and paradox between the two most prominent American values of the time: individual ambition and blindly patriotic anti-Communism. In one of the film’s most potent moments, the police threateningly ask the protagonist if he knows what treason is, to which he responds with “Who cares?” Released in the year of the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg executions, Pickup is rife with political daring, both endangering and enabling Fuller?...
...legal labor organization in China. The ACFTU has struggled to gain a foothold in the country's booming private sector. "Imagine what American workers in Wal-Mart stores are going to say," says Robin Munro, research director at the Hong Kong-based China Labour Bulletin. "'Chinese workers living under communism are allowed to have unions in Wal-Mart stores, but we in America aren...
Americans have dreamed of penetrating the elusive China market since traders began peddling opium to Chinese addicts in exchange for tea and spices in the 19th century. War and communism conspired to keep the Chinese poor and Westerners out. But with the rise of a newly affluent class and the rapid growth of the country's economy, the China market has become the fastest growing for almost any American company you can think of. Although Washington runs a huge trade deficit with Beijing, exports to China have risen 76% in the past three years. According to a survey...