Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvey Milk b) Muhammad Ali c) Georgia O'Keeffe d) Martha Graham...
...With reporting by Georgia Harbison...
...last week the business world was shocked when Ivester announced he would retire next April to make way for "fresh leadership," putting an end to a tenure that was as extraordinarily rocky as it was brief. The Georgia native insistently echoed company statements that stepping down at age 52 was his idea. But veteran Coke watchers couldn't help speculating that there must have been a shove from disenchanted members of the company's board of directors. "This was a guy you would have had to carry out in a box," says Tom Pirko, president of Bevmark, a consultant...
...just one of Douglas Daft's strengths. The 30-year company veteran has spent most of his career overseas, building successful businesses in the uncertain, even untrammeled markets of the Middle East and Asia. If Ivester seems almost uncomfortable outside the world of the beverage business or his native Georgia, Daft is a jovial former math teacher with a wry sense of humor, a diverse range of interests and a creative streak. He pushed to develop Coke's biggest seller in Japan, for instance, and likes to joke that it is not a cola but a syrupy drink called Georgia...
...Minutes it took Michigan's Chris Young to foul out of a basketball game against Georgia Tech...