They are shaped like a soft drink can and are packed with high explosives.
Snodgrass sat down at my table and refused the offer of a soft drink.
The most obvious example would be with a soft drink, Coke or Fanta say.
And you have a piece of stale cheese and perhaps a glass of wine or a soft drink.
They disapprove of the vapid notion that spending more on a soft drink or ice cream can bring happiness or social cachet.
Spirits, meanwhile, contain more than six times the calories of beer, and when mixed with a soft drink, the calorie-count soars even higher.
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In one experiment, they found that job candidates who ordered a glass of wine during an interview over dinner were viewed as less intelligent than those who ordered a soft drink.
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Anthony Missano, an executive at Sbarro, was looking for a way to attract teens to the pizza-and-pasta chain when a soft drink sales rep handed him a fountain drink with a mini music CD tucked inside the plastic lid.
During the trial, prosecutors showed the jury an experiment which they said showed that a soft drink-size bottle filled with the kind of liquid explosives the men allegedly planned to use could have brought down a plane in mid-flight.
David May, director of global marketing at Goldman Sachs, argues that whereas firms can control almost every aspect of the brand of, say, a soft drink or a pair of shoes, in financial services the brand depends heavily on the people who are employed by a firm.
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Karl Hoffman, who lived in the flat, told jurors he had tried to put out the fire with a cup of water and a bottle of soft drink before a neighbour dialled 999.
With the Iraqi forces gone, residents began looting the area -- including a Pepsi soft drink factory said to be owned by Saddam's son, Uday.
Polar, which at the time owned a local soft drink brand as well as extensive beer operations, jumped at the chance to land the Pepsi business.
The soldiers sat for a moment, drinking the soft drink, a platoon staple.
Discussions are near completion for a 30% stake in a new soft-drink bottling plant.
Polar, which at the time owned a local soft-drink brand as well as extensive beer operations, jumped at the chance to land the Pepsi business.
If you don't want to abstain entirely, there are ways that can help you cut down, including opting for smaller glass sizes, diluting alcohol with soda water or a low-calorie soft drink, alternating between alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and keeping a few nights each week booze-free.
Brahma, though stronger, lacks a premium-brand soft drink, which its former arch-enemy has in the form of Guarana Antarctica, a type of fruit soda.
That would require a series of behavioral changes among soft drink consumers and at a magnitude that is anyway several years in the making.
On its website, the New York City Department of Health describes how drinking one 20-ounce (590ml) sweetened soft drink a day translates into eating 50 pounds (22.6kg) of sugar a year.
Warren Buffet, the unbelievably homespun billionaire and long-time Coca-Cola director and shareholder, has been a staunch critic of options accounting and called the soft drink maker's accounting change a "classy move, " adding that he would feel "far more comfortable" if other companies followed its lead.
He explained that later in the year when it is in season, he will return to pick the yellow gorse flowers (which have a distinct coconut taste) to use in meat marinades and Thai curries, as well as burdock root, which is popular in Japanese cooking and can be used for vegetable soups or mixed with dandelion to make a root beer-like soft drink.
It inspired a number of competitors, particularly as soft drink companies took notice of the demand for drinks with natural ingredients.
"The real competition is less between Coke and Pepsi than between Wal-Mart and Kroger, " says Thomas Pirko, president of Bevmark, a consulting firm to the big soft-drink companies.
Inside they found an unusual powdered soft drink, Tang, and a large number of batteries.
After graduating in 1991 he returned to Iceland to pay off student loans, working for his father, who oversaw the brewery and soft drink units of Pharmaco, a drugmaker.
The British Crown Prosecution Service said it was a plot -- involving liquid explosives hidden in soft drink bottles -- that could have been pulled off.
As a nation, consumption of candy has increased by 50 percent between 1980 and 1995, and in the past 25 years, soft drink consumption has doubled, according to a study published this year in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.
It would be foolish of us as a culture to miss the pain the Dr. Pepper soft drink is meant to alleviate during an era where traditionally male jobs are disappearing (construction, manufacturing) and there is increasing competition for knowledge work from women, as well as a general feminization of the culture (a topic too big to talk about in a comment).
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