Word: pepsis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...primary four years earlier, and his opponent this time, Republican Incumbent Dewey F. Bartlett, was a millionaire in his own right and well financed by oil interests. Yet Hall persisted, showing the same determination that got him through the University of Tulsa law school (he drove a Pepsi truck), and then saw him become Tulsa County's chief prosecutor...
Like Gulliver among the Lilliputians, Dentsu Advertising Ltd. has long dominated the business of mass selling in Japan, and its roster of clients gleams with famous names: Toyota, Pepsi-Cola, Nestle, Max Factor. The agency operates in one of the world's ripest ad markets: the Japanese watch more television than any other people, and are even more brand-conscious than Americans. Helped by a booming economy and a rising currency in recent years, Dentsu has grown particularly fast. In 1972 it elbowed McCann-Erickson out of second place in global billings, and now it has become...
...Choosing between those two is like choosing between Pepsi-Cola and Coca-Cola," snapped Jose Vicente Rangel, the Marxist-Socialist candidate who finished a distant fourth, with roughly 4.2% of the vote. It was true that neither of the two leading candidates could show clear political differences from his opponent. Though Venezuela's output of about 3.4 million bbl. of crude daily makes it the world's third largest oil producer (after Saudi Arabia and Iran), oil never became an issue. Both major candidates agreed that foreign oil concessions, mostly to American companies that now have...
...returns suggest that Venezuelans rather like choosing between the political equivalent of Coke and Pepsi. The two major parties together cornered roughly 85% of the votes cast, in a field of twelve candidates ranging from the extreme left to the far right. This was seen by political observers as a trend toward a two-party system that, if it continues, could give the country a more stable political system. Of the eleven countries in South America, Venezuela along with Colombia, and possibly Argentina, are the only working democracies. The big loser in the election was former Dictator Perez Jimenez...
...sheep out to pasture, or bring in the hay for the animals, and Don Margorito or his neighbor moves from one maguey plant to the next, extracting the sweet agua miel that soon ferments into pulche, an alcoholic drink. Or, later, you pass the very small children, laden with Pepsi bottles and tortillas for their fathers' early lunch, scampering through the dust...