Word: peppered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overseas regulators, who have long suspected the company of attempting to Coca-Colonize the planet. In one confrontation last spring, the European Community forced Coke to scale back its $1.85 billion purchase of the foreign rights to Cadbury Schweppes beverage brands, which prevented the company from marketing Crush, Dr Pepper and Canada Dry in Europe. That took the fizz out of one-quarter of the company's global sales...
...this moment of triumphant capitalism, of planetary cash flows and a priapic Dow, all the second thoughts and outright furies about the global economy collected on the streets of downtown Seattle and crashed through the windows of NikeTown. After two days of uproar scented with tear gas and pepper spray, Americans may never again think the same way about free trade and what it costs...
...police lost control first of downtown and then, in some cases, of themselves. Many of the demonstrators complained that the cops were using rubber bullets, tear gas and pepper spray against nonviolent protesters while a few blocks away vandals freely roamed the city throwing litter baskets through store windows. These complaints were seconded by angry residents of the city's Capitol Hill district, where police pursued protesters with tear gas and concussion grenades despite the fact that the area was outside the no-protest zone...
...atmosphere was tense," he said. "Everyone would walk in groups, women wouldn't stand next to men alone at bus stops. Everyone was arming themselves, carrying pepper spray and whistles...