Word: jolt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jolt Cola, the new soft drink which advertises itself as the choice with "all the sugar and twice the caffeine," is now available for purchase at several Boston-area stores...
...bubbly stimulant--introduced to the nation's supermarkets last April--is intended to combat a beverage industry trend to remove the goodies from sugary soda, officials of the Rochester-based Jolt Company...
...weather) and nonsensical (everything else). On May 31, however, the terse official announcement had the ring of truth: Zbigniew Bujak, a fugitive underground leader of the banned Solidarity trade-union movement, had been arrested after eluding police for more than four years. Only days later, Poles received a second jolt. The Washington Post reported that the Reagan Administration not only knew in advance about the Warsaw regime's plans to impose martial law in December 1981, but according to Polish Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban, failed to do everything in its power to prevent the imposition. Solidarity's dwindling band...
...should be," says Jim Chriss, marketing vice-president of Levi Strauss International. Real Americans, in other words, are cowboys and sexpots and raucous young hunks--Steve McQueen, Marilyn Monroe, Montgomery Clift. It seems that Europeans and Japanese are especially fond of the American icons that provided their first pop jolt 20 or 30 or 40 years ago--pop that now has patina. The French intelligentsia still swoons for American movies of the '40s and '50s. Levi's is using images of James Dean and John Wayne in its advertisements in Japan, music by Marvin Gaye and Sam Cooke in Europe...
...minutes the flash high is followed by a crashing low that can leave a user craving another hit. But that evanescent electric jolt, priced so that almost anyone can afford it, has made crack the drug of the moment. The National Cocaine Hotline (1-800-COCAINE) estimates that 1 million Americans in 25 states around the country have tried crack. From January through April, while New York City police seizures of marijuana fell off 92% from the year before and heroin seizures fell off 88%, cocaine seizures rose 41%. Crack busts already constitute 55% of all cocaine arrests...