Word: venezuela
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...until last spring. Brazilian defense officials viewed expensive new F-16s and F/A-18s as a low priority. Argentina, which has been demilitarizing, was worried at the thought of the jets' being sold to its neighbor Chile. Buenos Aires would have to buy the same planes to keep up. Even Venezuela, the only country given a waiver of the Carter prohibition and allowed to buy 26 F-16s in 1982, parked many of them in hangars much of the time because of the high cost of repairs...
...Phoenix, Arizona, in 1980, when Mike was two. After coaching in the minor pro leagues, Henry landed a job as an assistant coach at Arizona State. But after a recruiting scandal there in 1985, he went back to being a coaching gypsy: Baltimore, Maryland; Savannah, Georgia; Tulsa, Oklahoma; and Venezuela. His trips home to Phoenix lost all frequency, and Henry's presence was reduced to an electronic pager he left with the kids...
Then came August, when Enrico learned that Pepsi's biggest bottler, Argentina's B.A.E.S.A., was rotten with financial problems--this coming on the heels of accounting shenanigans with Pepsi Bottling of Puerto Rico. And last week Pepsi's sad summer seemed to reach its nadir in Venezuela, the company's showcase South American market: overnight and without notice, Pepsi's independent (to say the least) bottler switched 18 plants and 2,500 trucks to archrival Coca-Cola, a midnight move that will cost Pepsi some $400 million in sales and $10 million in profits according to analysts if the defection...
...gulp!--has Venezuela. For the past 50 years, Pepsi had been the choice of generations of Venezuelans, holding a 40% market share; the country of 21 million was one of Pepsi's Top 10 global markets. The relationship was cushioned by the friendship between PepsiCo boss Enrico and Oswaldo Cisneros, CEO of Embotelladras Hit de Venezuela, the Pepsi bottler there. But Cisneros became a Coke convert for a reported price of $300 million, a whopping chunk of cash for half interest in the business. The swiftness of the deal left Pepsi's regional president, Alberto Uribe, sputtering with rage: "Oswaldo...
...flees her marriage in Venezuela, running all the way to Paris (still in her wedding dress) to try out a career in opera singing. She moves in with some country women, seeks out a voice professor, and sets out on a quirky and colorful adventure to find happiness...