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...Quaker Oats, Snapple soft drinks have been proving hard to swallow. Quaker paid $1.7 billion for Snapple in 1994, only to watch the acquisition lose $100 million in 1995. Quaker's stock has fallen from $37.50 to $33 in the past year, even as the market bubbled. So CEO Bill Smithburg is under pressure to get profits flowing again at the $6.3 billion company. The board even canceled his bonus. Quaker's Gatorade sports drink is No. 1 in its category. But the company has more modest aims for Snapple, which has less than 5% of the soft-drink market...
...start of the game, Harvard was doing a lot right. Things were even until the end of the first period, when a 5-1 Crimson run fueled by two Clark goals turned a one-goal Quaker lead into a three-goal Crimson advantage at the half...
...then Harvard lost it. Instead of patiently waiting for open teammates on offense, the Crimson rushed everything and took unnecessary risks. Those became turnovers, and the turnovers became Quaker goals...
Meanwhile, former students of the school have filed a $60 million suit against the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Quaker Oats and doctors at the Fernald School, the Associated Press reported yesterday...
...suit claims that the research conducted was to help Quaker Oats find a way to gain an advantage over their competitors by comparing how the children's bodies digested Quaker Oats and Cream of Wheat...