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There is more going on behind the scenes, however. Each basketball season, the women's soccer team takes up residence at the Briggs snack bar and tirelessly earns money for its program. As a result, the team is able to expand its budget and see more of the world...
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...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Even though American doctors and hospitals spend $75 billion every year treating patients who suffer life-threatening reactions to prescription drugs, Americans often can get better information on the snack food and cars they buy than the medicines they take. Even so, the Senate is debating a provision to block an FDA plan to make more complete drug information available. "The nation spends as much to cure the illnesses caused by prescription drugs as we spend on the drugs themselves," said Senator Edward Kennedy, who is fighting to preserve the FDA initiative. Fewer than half of those using...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Even though American doctors and hospitals spend $75 billion every year treating patients who suffer life-threatening reactions to prescription drugs, Americans often can get better information on the snack food and cars they buy than the medicines they take. Even so, the Senate is debating a provision to block an FDA plan to make more complete drug information available. "The nation spends as much to cure the illnesses caused by prescription drugs as we spend on the drugs themselves," said Senator Edward Kennedy, who is fighting to preserve the FDA initiative. Fewer than half of those using...
...they file into studio 8g at Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, audience members are treated to the sort of freebie they would not be given had they ordered tickets to the Richard Bey Show. Resting on each of the 175 seats are a pint of milk (low fat) and a snack-size package of Drake's cakes. This is the Rosie O'Donnell Show, and the gimmick is apt. The actress and comic, part brassy New Yorker, part perky den mother, has come to TV to serve up the daytime talk show as comfort food...