(To convince bottlers that the new products can match or exceed the sales of existing brands without heavy discounting or couponing, Coca-cola and PepsiCo will have to cut back on special promotion, then ply the bottlers with the resulting sales data. But their most useful tactic will be to offer the bottlers generous cooperative advertising deals on the new sodas, and extra money to promote the old ones. Bottlers may come in for a little arm-twisting as well. “It is often very subtle,” says an industry executive who prefers not to be named. “The Coca-cola representative will say ‘That decision is not going to sit very well in Atlanta’or something like that.”)Does “that decision” refer to something in line with Coca-cola’s top leaders’ decision or conflicting to theirs?

Lead values moved up to their best level since April last year in the absence of a settlement at Australia' s Broken Hill lead-zinc-silver mines.( )

A number of economics and political blogs have recently caught onto the political futures market craze,particularly focusing on Intrade(a popular site where people can bet on,among other things,the presidential election). ( )

Values declined in line with platinum and New York advices as miners were encouraged to return to work by management promises of negotiation. ( )

The store discounted all clothing for the sale. ( )

Economic problems were exacerbated by three bad harvests with the result that national income and the volume of foreign trade contracted during 1960-1962.

The consumers welcomed the slash in meat prices

The concept that we can turn this around right now is patently ridiculous.

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