Word: dieting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meanwhile, has gone on a stringent diet. Atlantic Richfield, which had already slashed its work force from 39,000 to 29,000, announced last week that it will lay off as many as 2,000 more and close its exploration office in Denver...
Whether it is diet Coke, new Coke, classic Coke, cherry Coke or some other soda, more soft-drink fans buy something sold by Coca-Cola than by any other beverage maker. No. 2 PepsiCo keeps trying hard to catch up, and last week the company may have found a way to do so. Pepsi announced an agreement to buy Seven-Up, the third-largest soft-drink manufacturer, from Philip Morris for $380 million. As part of the deal, Philip Morris retains Seven-Up's bottling plants and food division. By adding Seven-Up's 7% share of the $26 billion...
...Reading Game first plunged into multi-outlet tutoring in 1970, beginning with eleven centers in California and expanding to 70 in six states. The company has served a principal diet of reading for kindergarten through twelfth grade, both remedial for slow learners and enrichment for fast-track youngsters. Its fee: $20-$25 an hour...
...closer look revealed a miracle. Twenty-four days after mudslides triggered by the volcanic eruption of Nevado del Ruiz had laid waste to the town and killed 23,000 people, there was Echeverry, safe and relatively sound, in her partially mud-covered house. She had survived on a diet of cracked barley, raw sugar and rice...
...goes. Many of the commonsensical scientific facts that were learned in school a generation ago had to be subsequently unlearned. The most healthy diet was once considered to be red meat every day and lots of eggs and milk too. The auto would run for a year on a uranium pill. Babies (the more the better) must be fed on a strict schedule every three hours; no, babies must be fed whenever they cry; no, on a schedule . . . And the sun never sets on the British empire...