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...immigrant flood has helped hold wages down in a broad range of low-level occupations, from assembling computer circuit boards to sewing clothes. The pay for California's unionized lemon harvesters, for example, has remained at $6 per hour since the early 1980s because of competition from nonunion crews, which include illegal aliens. Local 531 of hotel workers in Los Angeles was forced to accept a pay cut from $4.20 per hour to $3.60 per hour late last year...
...president of Pepsi-Cola USA, said his surveys show that 60% of new Coke drinkers see it as "weaker in flavor delivery." But hold on, countercountered Coke. Pepsi's sales figures are distorted because they include Pepsi's entire array of soft drinks, notably Diet Pepsi and the new lemon-flavored Slice. Reliable figures will not be available until July or August...
White Rock U.S.A. 2,200,000 Moderately strong fizz. Sunny lemon flavor is pleasantly astringent, if a bit distracting...
...brand name, as they once did Scotch. The fastidious will not take it on the rocks, because ice bruises the bubbles. Only aspiring starlets drink Perrier ("designer water," sniff detractors). Evian is Hollywood's chic refresher, and the hottest innovation of all is Cit-Jet, a pressurized can of lemon juice from France that will flavor the waters of summer '85. Says Novelist-Screenwriter Josh Greenfeld (Harry and Tonto): "Pretty soon we'll be ordering water by the year...
Whitaker's first homer was a three-run shot with one out in the third inning. Larry Herndon and Chet Lemon started the inning with singles and came around when Whitaker hit one just over the left field screen off Cleveland Starter Vern Ruhle...