Word: sweetening
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...regardless of that increase, which is due in large part to the success of Diet Coke, Diet Sprite and Sprite, the powers that be in Coke's Atlanta corporate headquarters have decided to sweeten Coke...
Reporters labor hard to find perfect anecdotes and quotes to drive home the points they want their stories to make. At times they may even be tempted to take a shortcut and sweeten material by merging people into composite characters, placing them in colorful circumstances or concocting pithy remarks. But such fabrications, however faithful they may seem to the spirit of a reporter's observations, are violations of the ethics of the craft. Thus, when New Yorker Writer Alastair Reid, 58, admitted last week that he had indulged repeatedly in such sleight of hand, he prompted a well-deserved...
...which spans just one-day--the 500th anniversary of the hospital--encompasses the dedication of the fabulously expensive Millar Center for Advanced Surgical Procedure, and the pomp-filled visit of Her Royal Highness the Queen Mother. But as Anderson makes abundantly clear, all the money in Arabia couldn't sweeten this tittle health facility...
...sweeten sour ties, Nakasone pays a call and Shultz girds for Asia
...accepted a secret stock interest in a Virginia titanium mine and had agreed to use his senatorial influence to gain Government contracts to make the mining venture profitable. The jury also found that Williams had agreed to help gain legal residence in the U.S. for the man offering to sweeten the deal with a $100 million loan, an FBI agent posing as an Arab sheik. The transaction was surreptitiously videotaped by investigators and later shown on television news programs...