Word: banana
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Virtually no one with a checkbook was turned away from Bill Clinton's fund-raising party--not convicted felons, not Buddhist monks bearing someone else's money, not even a Russian mobster. But few of them felt the need to be quite as discreet as Carl Lindner, the banana king who had a bundle to drop in the last election...
...arrived here I got the sense that everybody was having sex or expected to have sex; I reached this conclusion from one of our mandatory study breaks. In one of my most embarrassing moments here, I was chosen by a Peer Contraceptive Counselor to put a condom on a banana and demonstrate the proper way to place a condom on the penis. Although the motivation underlying this exercise was positive (if you're having sex, use a condom), the message was ambiguous. Virgins like myself were told that a lot of our classmates were having sex and we probably would...
...often associate music with the special times in our lives--the ballad that was playing at the close of our high school prom, the love melody at our wedding reception, the trip-hop song that was blaring as we picked up boxer shorts at Banana Republic...
...Banana Republic? Yes. If a growing number of companies have their way, there will be a lot more memories like that. Retail chains are working hard to link their brands with the music younger customers want to hear. In recent years the Gap, Banana Republic, Victoria's Secret, the Pottery Barn and others have produced their own CDs and sold them at their checkout counters. Last week a new player was announced: Philip Morris, the world's largest cigarette maker...
...spread cola to all parts of the globe. The company is starting smaller, test marketing a beverage called Smooth Moos Smoothies in Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas. It is a 2% fat dairy shake packaged in old-fashioned milk bottles, and it comes in such flavors as double chocolate and banana. The product gives consumers 25% of their daily calcium requirement and keeps retailers happy with a shelf life of nine months. "Here was an opportunity to take something traditionally thought of as a commodity and make it fun and dynamic," says April Thornton, director of new products at Pepsi...