Word: pepsis
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Inui, a lover of tradition (he plays the classical three-string samisen), did his utmost to "Japanize" what he had learned. In particular, he worked through the sprawling sales networks of the great Japanese trading houses to lease to manufacturers, shippers and retailers, products as varied as Pepsi bottles, tankers and computers. Now Inui is trying to repay some of his debt of gratitude to U.S.L., of which he became a director in 1973. Next month Orient will open an office in Manhattan to help U.S.L. lease products to other Japanese firms operating...
...across rough subsidiary roads in Missouri (he is often refused permission to skate on interstate highways, which would cut his time considerably), he reached Tulsa, Okla., by his reckoning the exact mid-point in his journey. He may also have surpassed Hugh Hefner as the world's biggest Pepsi-Cola guzzler. Pepsi not only put up $1,500 for the trip but also staked the skater to all the pop he could drink, provided that he attire himself in Pepsi T shirts...
...Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev gave tacit recognition to the problem when U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger visited him recently. Discussing with Kissinger plans for a U.S.-built soft-drink factory in the Soviet Union, Brezhnev mused: "Maybe we can teach our people to drink less vodka and more Pepsi-Cola...
...Angela Lansbury, only to discover 4) that her lover, back from prospecting in Iran, actually prefers fat girls, whereupon 5) the cellulite freak abruptly departs and 6) a sadder but psychologically thinner Lynn sets out to face the future, like a reformed alcoholic with a missionary taste for Diet Pepsi...
...Brezhnev was as cheerful as the Moscow sun flooding his office. He confided to U.S. newsmen that he still smokes at a furious pace in spite of a cigarette case with a time lock on it that he keeps hidden in his desk. Referring to the fact that Pepsi-Cola will soon be distributed in the Soviet Union-one of the accomplishments of détente-he said: "Maybe we can teach our people to drink less vodka and more Pepsi-Cola...