Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Archrival PepsiCo (1982 sales: $7.5 billion), a food, beverage and sporting-goods conglomerate, offers five different types of cola (Pepsi, Diet Pepsi, Pepsi Free, Pepsi Light and Sugar Free Pepsi Free...
...proverbial straw that broke the Camel's back "nor" an insult to the intelligence of all the students who wish to improve race relations at Harvard University and the community at large," as a number of students have claimed. But the last that the Foundation features celebrities like Sugar Ray Leonard and Diana Ross in order to bring itself to the attention of students not only indicates the University's lack of sensitivity to minority needs: It also points up the lack of communication between students and the Administration...
Because the Foundation has low visibility on the whole, the speakers it chooses to advertise its existence are all-important. Guests like Diana Ross and Sugar Ray Leonard are perceived as having little connection with the race relations issue outside of the fact that they are Black, and because they have been the Foundation's most widely received guests, their visits lend credence to popular conceptions of the Foundation as bogus, or at least less than serious...
...Foundation must honor "big" names to attract attention, let it honor celebrities who have been involved with race relations. Instead of Diana Ross, honor Stevie Wonder, who has dedicated songs to Martin Luther King rather than the acquisition of muscles. Instead of Sugar Ray Leonard, honor former heavyweight champion Muhammed Ali or former N.Y. Giant Rosie Grier...
...writing in response to Diana Ross' visit to campus. When the Harvard Foundation invited Sugar Ray Leonard here I was not very alarmed. It was only an instance of silliness--nothing to worry about. But now that Miss Ross has came and been honored. I fear that a pattern has been established. Instead of denouncing much a trend with hard words. I would like to suggest another way that the Foundation can bring a little Hollywood to Harvard. Why don't they invite Duffy Duck? Oh yea, that little varmint will pack'em in. In addition, he fits the Foundation...