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Coca-Cola responded to the sugar industry's criticism with a four-page press release accusing the Sugar Association of misleading the public. The company acknowledged using corn syrup for the past five years. Coca-Cola pointed out, however, that the fructose in corn syrup, as every high school science student should know, is as much a sugar as sucrose, the technical name for beet or cane sugar. "The fact of the matter," said a Coca-Cola spokesman, "is that sugar is sugar is sugar." Even so, in May the company changed Coke's label to read "high fructose corn...
Coca-Cola probably could not help but be caught off guard by the sugar industry's assault. Its run-in with textile workers, though, was an avoidable gaffe. Last month Coca-Cola unveiled a line of men's and women's casual clothing manufactured by Murjani International of New York City under a license from the Atlanta company. The Murjani products included bright-colored sweaters ($40), sweatshirts ($34) and jean jackets ($52), all bearing the Coca-Cola logo. The trouble began when textile officials discovered that the clothes were made in Asia, despite being advertised as "All-American." Several textile...
April-Agro's enterprising president, Morris Demel, 50, a Polish-born Jew who grew up in Cuba and fled to Puerto Rico after Castro's takeover, planned to grow produce on arid southern coast farmland once used for sugar cane. Importing five Israeli agronomists and applying drip-irrigation methods developed on Israeli kibbutzim, Demel initially wanted to devote 5,000 acres to fruits and vegetables. But seven years after he began the project, only 1,000 acres are under cultivation...
Demel and his government adversaries are both struggling under a legacy of neglect for agriculture that began with Operation Bootstrap in the 1950s, when the commonwealth began steering its economy away from almost total dependence on sugar cane toward a more diversified industrial base in electronics and light manufacturing. Some observers believe that the island's agriculture is still wedded psychologically to sugar and is not truly interested in any other crop. Says Fernando Santiago, operator of a 600-acre farm in Santa Isabel: "Agriculture doesn't believe in vegetables...
...British architect who serves as executive director of the London-based Band Aid Trust and U.S. Live Aid Foundation. At least $34 million has already been spent for famine relief, says Jenden, which provided 17,000 tons of grain, 2,000 tons of milk powder, 1,200 tons of sugar and 350 metric tons of biscuits. More than $40 million will go toward long-term development projects, such as irrigation and reforestation...