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...global sales competition between Coke and Pepsi has produced some of the catchiest tunes in advertising, as well as a lot of intricate high-level maneuvering in Washington, where the winner was sometimes determined by who sat in the Oval Office. PepsiCo Chairman Donald Kendall got the right to bottle and sell Pepsi in the Soviet Union in 1972, when his friend Richard Nixon was in the White House. After Jimmy Carter moved to Washington, his old Atlanta pal Coca-Cola Chairman J. Paul Austin captured the exclusive right to sell Coke to a billion Chinese. Rarely, though...
...Both Pepsi and Coke have campaigned vigorously for the Thai market. Tropical thirsts have driven consumption of soft drinks there up to a strong 50 to 60 bottles per person per year, despite an annual per capita income of only $350. Although Coke's overall sales, including those of Sprite and Fanta, top Pepsi's total market share 46% to 34%, Coke alone has long trailed Pepsi by a wide margin...
...recent years, Coke had begun closing the gap, but the Thai government hurt the company's sales a year ago when it raised the excise tax on soft drinks by more than 100%. That made Coke and Pepsi raise their prices from a dime to 15? a bottle. Thai peasants, who leaned toward Pepsi but occasionally bought both drinks, were forced by the higher prices to cut their consumption and choose one or the other. More often than not, they chose Pepsi...
Tacky, tacky, tacky. That is the aim and the achievement of Writer-Director Waters. The decor in Francine's home looks to be straight out of Lesser Homes and Gargoyles; her husband breakfasts on Pepsi and Kix; the family dog leaves the message GOODBYE CRUEL WORLD and hangs itself from the refrigerator door. As with most farce, the movie sags when it runs out of middle-class icons to desecrate. But for any suitably depraved moviegoer, it offers as many honest laughs as Airplane! It's a vision of Baltimore that H.L. Mencken might have loved...
Over the course of the four day meet the Nadadore swimmers scored a combined total of 1518 points, more than triple that of Florida Aquatic Swim Team (FAST) which posted 458.5 for second place. The 1980 Outdoor Champion Cincinnati Pepsi Marlins finished third with...