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...been able to watch Navy play before our game, and they are a very large and very good team," junior Marty Edlund said. "I think that we went into the game a little intimidated, and then we just couldn't convert...
...Venezuelans, holding a 40% market share; the country of 21 million was one of Pepsi's Top 10 global markets. The relationship was cushioned by the friendship between PepsiCo boss Enrico and Oswaldo Cisneros, CEO of Embotelladras Hit de Venezuela, the Pepsi bottler there. But Cisneros became a Coke convert for a reported price of $300 million, a whopping chunk of cash for half interest in the business. The swiftness of the deal left Pepsi's regional president, Alberto Uribe, sputtering with rage: "Oswaldo Cisneros was my friend. He sent me four lawyers and a judge to tell me this...
After the Council voted June 24 to endorse Harvard's plan to set aside 74 units for its low income tenants, sell 100 units to the city and convert the remainder to affiliate housing, City Councillors, Harvard administrators, and tenant activists thought they could celebrate...
...candidates. Publicly, officials of the coalition, which raises $25 million a year, deny the allegations. Privately, however, the coalition is considering elemental changes to its structure. During negotiations to settle the suit, the coalition offered to form a political-action committee. It may go even further and, if pushed, convert itself into a more political organization, a move its leaders claim would actually strengthen the group. But outsiders have a hard time believing the coalition really wants to abide by the strict rules that apply to purely political entities: disclosure of contributors, prohibition of corporate gifts...
...unevenly between getting a job and fighting off his militant, singing infestation. Then the country-folk-meets-city-folk story quickly gets on an even simpler track when Joe sees his dream girl, Lily (Megan Ward). Golden-haired and slo-mo, she tends a garden niche and hopes to convert a local lot into Eden before her senator father (Robert Vaughn) makes it a prison Hell...