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...sponsoring legislation to curb benefits for ex-Presidents and their families. Over the past three decades, the cost to taxpayers for what Chiles dubs "the imperial former presidency" has quietly spiraled from $64,000 to $27 million this fiscal year. The Federal Government picks up the tab for pensions, offices, staffs, round-the-clock Secret Service protection, maintenance for lavish presidential libraries and a gamut of other expenses ranging from car washes to cable-TV rentals to joke writers' fees. All this, Chiles points out, even though Carter, Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon are already millionaires from lucrative memoirs...
Many of the newcomers are decaffeinated versions of a company's standard brands. Coca-Cola (1982 sales: $6.2 billion), the largest soft-drink producer, joined the trend last week by rolling out caffeine-free varieties of Coke, diet Coke and TAB in Denver (see above) and Salt Lake City. The Atlanta-based firm, which had only two colas (Coke and TAB) before last July, will now have a total of brand entries in the cola field...
...caffeine battles, of course, are merely the latest skirmishes in the ancient war between Coke and Pepsi. Coca-Cola, which makes Sprite, Fresca, Mello Yello and other brands in addition to Coke and TAB, leads all soft-drink producers, with some 36% of the total market. Pepsi brands, including Mountain Dew, have about 25%. But although regular Coke is still the bestselling soft drink, it has lost some ground to Pepsi since the early 1970s (see chart...
...like totally caffcinated. I've had three liters of Tab and about four cups of coffee at the Tasty at live this morning...
...Someone told me you get ulcers from living like this. I don't think Tab and salud is good...