One common anticompetitive practice is to give retailers and restaurateurs free fridges or soda fountains if they refuse to sell soft drinks from rival firms.
Among the dead was a man who lived next door, who had opened an informal stand to sell soft drinks and candy to the partygoers.
The $8 million figure is a minimum payment, he stressed, and higher-margin deals were traditionally linked to agreements to sell soft drinks in schools, which New York City refuses to do.
It reinforces the previous conclusion that polar bears are not a recent spinoff of brown bears, and it paints a more detailed picture of what the bears have been doing all this time as they evolved into the charismatic megafauna we now use to sell soft drinks and promote environmental causes.
Mehmet Ozhaseki, an old friend and mayor of Kayseri, tells how Mr. Gul failed to sell soft drinks because he was too shy to sing the jingle, "cold enough to make your 32 teeth dance to the rhythm of the violin".
Most local people trace the beginning of Antique Alley to the opening of a small shop in 1976 by Sumner and Muriel Parker, a Northwood couple who decided to sell soft ice cream and curios (mostly moccasins) to travelers passing by.
The Los Angeles unified school district, 750 institutions, have already announced they won't sell soft drinks anymore.
The Los Angeles unified school district, 750 institutions, has already announced it won't sell soft drinks anymore.
