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Nevertheless, there have been some stunning recent soda successes. Coca-Cola's new diet Coke, which was introduced last July, is already a brisk seller. For years, the company had feared that putting its famed name on any other product would diminish the sales and standing of the flagship brand. But to the company's surprise, nearly two-thirds of diet Coke sales are coming from new soda drinkers or from other companies' brands...
Indeed, a similar objection was initially raised against the escrow fund Endowment for Divesture, but financial aid officials themselves quickly denied that the alternative fund would diminish scholarship offers...
...well have little practical impact: the disproportion between man's ability to eliminate nuclear arms and nuclear arms' capacity to eliminate man is the most tragic irony of the nuclear age. But if the first four decades of coexisting with nuclear weaponry proves anything, it is this: man cannot diminish the likelihood of nuclear holocaust until he comes to grips intellectually with the complexity of the problem and rejects the easy panaceas of both the Left and the Right. The authors of Living With Nuclear Weapons recognize this; perhaps one day they will be looked...
...defeated in the Democratic primary last February: Jane Byrne, the departing mayor, and Richard Daley, son of the legendary boss. Bernard Epton, last Tuesday's Republican loser, skulked off to Florida, leaving his brother to fill in at the lunch. Epton's lack of grace seemed to diminish rather than heighten the tensions: at that moment, it was hard to argue that the better man had lost...
...questions are posed by Dutch journalist and author William Oltmans, Clearly sympathetic to much of what Arbatov has to say. Oltmans rarely presses his interjector: indeed, some of his queries seem designed to dicit a response uncomplimentary to the United States. Still, this bits does little to diminish the importance of the book. Arbatov's statements are not extemparacoure the U.S. specialist was given written questions to which he formulated answers over several months. It would be a good bet to assume that Arbatov consulted with his friends on the Central Committee and that his opinions reflect those...