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...Coke-Nestlé partnership) as "garbage." His advice to Coke: "Fire those people [the marketing executives]. Put them on a truck, and run them south. They're out there covering their asses." Vultaggio gloats about the fate of Snapple, once a proud independent like Arizona, that was swallowed and spit out by Quaker Oats and is now part of Cadbury-Schweppes. To its owners, he says, Snapple is "not even worth talking about." The soft-drink superpowers feel similarly about him. They refused to bash back...
Everywhere one hears the piercing screech of the cutting wheels. It's crazy to watch precious stones being negotiated by people standing in spit and piles of garbage. And why is there no security? Everyone appears to have his pockets stuffed with stones, but there is only the occasional camera, some padlocks here and there and a few guards. "They are very casual about the gems. They've always lived with it," offers De Taillac...
...People should spit into a tissue or a bag, then place it in a dustbin to complete the civilized process of spitting." ZHANG HUIGANG, director of the Beijing government's Capital Ethic Development Office, which is campaigning to clean up the city and end spitting on the street before the 2008 Olympics
...Larry Summers is not someone that I want to represent me,” she said. “He’s not someone that I want to represent Harvard, not someone that I want to represent the seal, Veritas.” But Goodman did not only spit bile about Summers. At one point, she managed to get in a back-handed compliment to the Man. “At least his case of foot-and-mouth disease is not as bad as the nation’s president,” she said. Unlike at President Bush?...
...Nobert lives with the consequences of such mutual intransigence. Mullaitivu, at the end of a spit off Sri Lanka's northeast coast, was once a village of red-tiled bungalows, purple bougainvillea and powdery white shores, where Tamil boatmen lived by shrimp-fishing and smuggling coconut whisky to India. But when civil war broke out in 1983 between the Sinhalese-dominated government to the south and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (L.T.T.E.) based in the north and east, Mullaitivu wound up on the front line. The village fell first to the Sri Lankan army. Then in 1996 the Tigers...