Word: pepsi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard Dining Services (HDS) will once again serve Coca-Cola, reversing a decision made earlier this year to contract with Pepsi, Michael P. Berry, outgoing Director of HDS, told the Crimson last night...
Coke's victory comes after months of campus controversy concerning Pepsi's questionable human rights record and the significant student preference for Coke products...
...Dana Carvey Show was intended to be an ironic resurrection of 1950s-style brand-name TV shows like The Lux Video Theatre or The U.S. Steel Hour. The deal originally struck between ABC and Pepsico, Taco Bell's parent company, was that each week a different member of the Pepsi family would serve as "both title and target" for Carvey's wry satire, positioning the sponsor as quite the cool dude for rope-a-doping a few edgy punches...
...faux-Mexican fast-food chain can take only so much agita. After watching the first of DANA CARVEY's comedy shows, the folks at Taco Bell, a division of Pepsi, decided not to sponsor any more. On The Taco Bell Dana Carvey Show, dancing tacos hailed Carvey as "our whore," and Princess Di was called a slut (twice). Hardly shocking for Carvey's regular audience, but this was prime time. Pizza Hut, another unit of Pepsi in line for top billing, also got cold feet. But the show drew big ratings, and ABC said it would be reined...
...asked a Harvard student on the street to give $10 to have an innocent person thrown in jail and have his face beaten in, no student would do it," Freeman said. "But that is exactly what HDS would have us do if they signed the Pepsi contract...