Word: silver
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Remarkably, PepsiCo ably demonstrates how much gold there is in being the eternal silver-medal winner. The company is still a veritable junk-food juggernaut that includes Frito-Lay, which dominates the salty-snack industry the way you-know-who does soft drinks. There are also the fast-food restaurants Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and KFC, a division that is on the rebound. The entire company brought in revenues of $30 billion and profits of $1.99 billion in 1995. The stock, which recently split, increased some 70% last year...
...settlers in an exisiting settlement on the West Bank. It would be the first new construction in an occupied territory outside of Jerusalem in at least four years, and represents a manifestation of promises made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his election campaign this spring. TIME's Eric Silver reports from Jerusalem that the new housing is part of a plan drawn up years ago but shelved under the Labor governments of Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres. The new apartments will be in Kiryat Sefer, a settlement of strictly observant Jews that is essentially a suburb of Jerusalem. Observant...
...coach, later said, "I was in the stands in Mexico City when Bob Beamon long-jumped over 29 ft., and even when he was in the air, you just knew it was something special. Tonight, same thing." When Johnson crossed the finish line, a full 5 m ahead of silver medalist Frankie Fredericks of Namibia, the timer read 19.32 sec. People who knew the significance of the number blinked in disbelief. Johnson had broken his own world record of 19.66 by more than a third of a second, skipping right over the .50s and .40s. Oh, yes--he had also...
...snare the double, but he was only the second person of the evening. Perec had decided to run the 200 on a lark after her victory in the 400. Some lark. She powered past Merlene Ottey of Jamaica, whose medal was the sixth of her career--all silver or bronze. Afterward, Perec apologized to her fellow Caribbean for depriving her of her first gold. A delightful woman who models for Claude Montana and spars with the French press over her move to the States, Perec causes as much of a sensation with her revealing track outfit as she does with...
...four other Olympic qualities that the fairy-tale Olympian mythically has to conquer: excellence (in the heroic third-straight gold of 4-ft. 11-in. Turkish weight lifter Naim Suleymanoglu); integrity (in the radiant face of Jonathan Edwards, the British triple jumper who said he was thrilled to get silver and made you believe it); sportsmanship (in the tears of American Lindsay Davenport after she beat her "very best friend," Mary Joe Fernandez, in the women's tennis semifinals); and brotherhood (in the 82-kg wrestling bout in which Elmadi Jabrailov of Kazakhstan beat Lucman Jabrailov of Moldovia--his elder...