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...brews that look and taste much like regular beer but have little or no intoxicating effect. With these lighter-than-Lite beverages, U.S. brewers are making their boldest move since the introduction of low-calorie beer in the mid-1970s. Brewers hope the new brands will put fizz back into sales, which have gone flat following strong growth in the 1970s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soft Suds | 4/2/1984 | See Source »

...Witt, the arguments ended, for here was a skater of both athletic power and aesthetic sensibility. She has a natural fizz that makes the efforts of most others look labored. In fact her coach, Jutta Muller, is a stern drillmaster who is accustomed to Olympic triumph: her daughter Gabriele Seyfert took the silver medal in 1968, and Anett Poetzsch, another pupil, was the Lake Placid gold medalist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Little Touch of Heaven | 2/27/1984 | See Source »

Unfortunately, the cast fails to capitalize on the script's potential. The acting seems as flat as the champagne bottle Kit uncorks each time she drinks her way through woe. The audience waits for a fizz, but instead all we get is an occasional fizzle...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: Friendship Without Feeling | 12/7/1983 | See Source »

Although it has long had a loyal following among soft-drink guzzlers, 98-year-old Dr Pepper (1982 sales: $516.1 million) has gradually been losing its fizz. The company's namesake Dr Pepper brand fell from 5.4% of the soft-drink market in 1981 to 5.1% last year. Moreover, the Dallas-based firm knew things might continue getting worse because it lacks the financial and marketing clout to compete effectively against the soft-drink industry's giants: Coca-Cola (1982 sales: $6.2 billion) and highly diversified PepsiCo (1982 sales: $7.5 billion). So, taking a hint from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Swallowed Up | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

...cause of all this fizz and fever, the seventh and final race that broke the New York Yacht Club's 132-year-old hold on the Cup and ended the longest winning streak in sports, had been billed in advance as the Race of the Century. It was that, every hard-fought inch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Our Cup Runneth Under | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

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