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- <text id=90TT2728>
- <title>
- Oct. 15, 1990: An Olympic Cola Contest
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Oct. 15, 1990 High Anxiety
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- GRAPEVINE, Page 27
- An Olympic Cola Contest
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- <body>
- <p>By DAVID ELLIS/Reported by David E. Thigpen
- </p>
- <p> When Atlanta was chosen as the site of the 1996 Olympic
- Summer Games, officials in some rival cities grumbled about the
- inevitable triumph of "Coca-Cola capitalism." That complaint
- had a realistic edge: the soft-drink giant is based in Atlanta
- and strongly supported the hometown bid to the International
- Olympic Committee. Sensing a golden marketing opportunity,
- archrival Pepsi is suggesting to consumers in three losing
- cities--Athens, Rome and Melbourne--that they should
- register their displeasure at the checkout counter. In a
- newspaper advertisement in the Australian city, Pepsi declared,
- "If you don't like the I.O.C.'s choice, make your own." If this
- keeps up, the committee may have to introduce soda-can hurling
- as a gold-medal event.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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