Word: pepsi
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...current general election has seemed at times a contest about who can crib off the other party's platform more, from McCain's enthusiasm for using government to fight global warming to Obama's hedging on warrantless wiretapping. For an electorate having a harder time distinguishing Coke from Pepsi, there's a thirst for something--anything...
...annual meeting went on as usual. There was Buffett onstage with his trademark can of Coke--he used to prefer Pepsi, but that would be bad form now that he owns nearly a tenth of Coca-Cola. Next to him was Munger, his friend since 1959, whose acerbic attitude and tendency to soapbox only underscored Buffett's imperturbability...
What happens if U.S. products get transshipped to terrorism-supporting countries--say, if Pepsi or Kleenexes or Marlboros end up in Tehran? Nothing. The screening focuses solely on big transactions, usually with signed public contracts that are disclosable by publicly held companies; black-market materials, transshipments and the like...
...guarded by towering saguaro cacti. Smart, funny and cheery, Meyer does not seem noticeably undead in person. An observant Mormon, she doesn't drink alcohol and has never seen an R-rated movie. She's not perfect--although Mormons avoid caffeine on principle, she drinks the occasional cherry Diet Pepsi. "It's about keeping yourself free of addictions," she explains, sitting on a huge couch in her living room. "We have free will, which is a huge gift from God. If you tie that up with something like, I don't know, cocaine, then you don't really have...
...while we buy up copies of People and Us Weekly, we also return again and again to those images of a flawless Britney winking at us a with can of Pepsi in her hands...