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co·la

(kō'lă),

1. Synonym(s): kola

2. [L.] strain (imperative form).

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cola

(kō′lə)

A plural of colon².

A generic term for a carbonated beverage—commonly called ‘soda’ or ‘pop’—either artificially sweetened with saccharin or aspartame—average < 5 calories—or glucose, fructose—average 170 calories—purchased in cans or bottles or served from a tap
Adverse effects on health—peer-reviewed data: Carbonation is associated with dental erosion, osteoporosis, increased risk of fractures, and kidney stones; the sweeteners are linked to obesity and increased risk of type 2 diabetes

COLA

Commission on Office Laboratory Accreditation.

Cola

, kola (kō′lă) [W. African kola]

A genus of tropical trees that produce the kola nut. A kola nut extract is used in pharmaceutical preparations and as a main ingredient in some carbonated beverages.

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Rachel Flowers, director of public health at Croydon Council, is among those to have signed it and has even wrote a letter to Coca Cola herself asking for sugary drinks not to be handed out.

Coca Cola 'should stop handing out free sugary drinks' in Croydon on Christmas truck tour; The Coca Cola Christmas truck is at Valley Retail Park, off Purley Way, this weekend

The Colorado Supreme Court previously has held that public pension benefits are contractually protected, she adds, but the COLA decision made a distinction between the base pension benefit as protected and the COLA.

The Costs of COLAs

CSD-cola drinkers numbered 24 percent on this item while the CSD-non cola drinkers were 26 percent.

Saudi Arabia's carbonated soft drink market

For its El Nino and the Southern Oscillation program, COLA uses state-of-the-art coupled circulation models in an effort to determine the predictability of the climate phenomena known as El Nino and La Nina.

Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies

The first column represents Coca-Cola, column 2 represents Diet Cola, column 3 Sprite, column 4 Root Beer, column 5 Mr.

LOADING A COCA-COLA VENDING MACHINE BASED ON A STATISTICAL DESIGN

In the early 1990s, when COLA protection was first mandated as an offer to all applicants, the typical applicants were in their early 70s, much older than the average buyers today.

A Long-Term Commitment

CCB operates in Austria, Switzerland, northern Italy and ten former communist bloc countries including Poland, Hungary, Belarus and Ukraine, bottling and distributing Fanta and Sprite, as well as Coca Cola.

Floating CCB plans Euro sales push

Both Presidents Bush and Clinton eyed minor COLA cutbacks as a way to reduce the deficit--Bush for federal pensions, Clinton for Social Security.

The cost of living it up

Their new soda combines the ever-popular cola taste with a certain "lightness" consumers now crave, says company spokesperson Gary Hemphill.

Clearly cola?

Sodas made with extracts from the African tree Cola acuminata bore the brunt of that speculation because they contain phosphorus, which some scientists believe may spur bone loss by limiting the body's ability to use calcium.

Let them drink cola

Coca Cola enjoys a 30% share in Pakistan market, second only to PepsiCo, which is its archrival.