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Dallas-based Dr Pepper (1982 sales: $516 million) is among the firms that could be squeezed. Dr Pepper has a near cult following in places like Waco, Texas, where it was invented in 1885. Waco's 100,000 residents each knock back an average of more than 300 bottles a year. But the company has enjoyed little success making Dr Pepper a national brand. The firm lost $4 million in the fourth quarter and finished 1982 with a $12.4 million profit, down nearly 60% from 1981. It hopes that two new decaffeinated Pepper Free brands will help push...
Harvard--on the heels of Wednesday's opening-round 9-4 drubbing of Northwestern--will be looking to knock off a UMass squad that was the last to topple the Crimson, nine games ago. But as Harvard players and coaches argue, that 7-6 loss four weeks ago was perhaps the squad's worst performance of the year...
...Crimson readily admits it will take a stellar performance to knock off the 11-1-1 Minuteman squad. Harvard Coach Carole Kleinfelder says her underdog squad will need to take as many shots as possible against the defensive-minded UMass team and goalie Rita Hubner, widely considered the finest in the nation...
This movie looks nice in an unobtrusive way. The cameraman was clearly taken by Arquette's fetching beauty, and he shoots her at all sorts of angles and in all sorts of lights. She matures quite convincingly during the movie, losing some of her knock-kneed innocence for Sarah Lawrence chic. But there are too many holes, too many inconsistencies to raise Baby It's You from the level of high school melodrama. How is it that Sheik steals cars and never gets caught? Why does Jill dress so nicely, but live in a very plain middle class house...
Seeking therapy for not desiring sex [April 4] is about as sensible as joining Nonalcoholics Anonymous or going into a drug nonabuse clinic. Why should a free person knock at the door of a cage and seek to enter it? Jean Harmon Silver Spring...