Every mutual fund, endowment and family office drank Greenberg's Kool-Aid, and trusted whatever he told them.
Then it was time for the Electric Kool-Aid X Server Test, the moment of truth.
Yet perhaps Kool-Aid is an apter symbol for Hastings than its boosters would like.
It may use it in its own brands, including Kool and Lucky Strike.
Remember Ore-Ida Kool Blue (yes, they were blue) and Cocoa Crispers (yes, chocolate and potato) Funky Fries?
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Regardless of the comparison between the companies, Blankenship has taken a serious gulp of the Tesla Kool-Aid.
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Already a nursing association has chosen Hastings for its convention because it is the birthplace of Kool-Aid.
Walk into SAP and all you see is promotion for HANA. Even the employees have drunk the Kool-Aid.
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And, just possibly, the imagined connection between Genuine Nebraska and Genuine Kool-Aid will help bring Hastings new people.
Now, we can add Twitter co-founder Biz Stone to the burgeoning list of high-profile names to drink the venture capital Kool-Aid.
If you were the owner of the KOOL-AID mark at the time, it raised what certainly was no MICKEY MOUSE trademark problem.
Meanwhile, Kool-Aid's marketers have done their best to stay abreast of fashion.
Rating agencies also drank the Kool-Aid and gave AAA ratings to this stuff, which, thanks to securitization, was spread all around the world.
In fact, I remember weeks on end when our only meals were varied combinations of beans, potatoes, eggs, powdered milk and Kool Aid.
Microsoft wants you to drink their Kool-Aid from morning until bedtime.
Big Daddy Kane, Rakim and Kool G Rap, all 44, were game changers, trailblazers even, but their catalogs get thinner the deeper you move into the '90s.
Because, I tasted the bargain basement version of the campaign donor Kool-aid, once and that video strikes me as a slightly more expensive version of the same vintage.
Besides, Kool-Aid's image has changed as much as its headquarters.
Apple kool-aid drinkers claim that Jobs could have given anonymously.
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In 2011, DSOs performed 10.15 procedures per patient, DSO Kool Smiles (which Laffer openly noted funded the study but had no input) performed 8.24 and non-DSO dentists performed 12.39.
They backpedalled to the mid-term elections, bemoaning that we downed the campaign ad Kool-Aid and fell in lock step with what we already believed to be true, right and good.
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Then once I find a color, barely an hour after I apply it, I'm haunted by the ghost of lipstick past, a Kool-Aid stain less appealing than my bare lips.
The story of Kool-Aid's creation is most definitely genuine.
Michael had sketched with perfect strokes a California phenomenon much as another Eastern skeptic, Tom Wolfe, had done 33 years earlier with California crazies of a different bent in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
We find economists sticking to empty guns, overstating their cases, playing modern-day oracles, drinking their own Kool Aid, gambling their fortunes, losing their shirts, getting depressed, disparaging one another, and descending into intellectual oblivion.
Young people, however, are not drinking the Kool-Aid.
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The Kool Aid will continue to briskly sell.
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The company had a well-developed portfolio of beverages for kids, including Kool-Aid and Capri Sun, and it had a great portfolio of products for women, Crystal Light and Maxwell House, being among the most popular.
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For that reason, I doubt that anyone who is a true Apple fanatic, who has drunk the rainbow Kool-Aid and who thrills at the very words "Think Different, " will believe a word I have to say.
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