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Any of the four cultivated plants which belong to the family Erythroxylaceae, native to western South America.

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The dried leaf of one of these plants, the South American shrub (Erythroxylum coca), widely cultivated in Andean countries, which is the source of cocaine.

Coca, any preparation or admixture of, containing more than 0.1% but less than 1 of coca alkaloids.

The leaves and young shoots are chewed; they have stimulating properties, comparable with those of the coca of Peru.

With the cinchona trees grow many kinds of melastomaceae, especially the Lasiandra, with masses of purple flowers, tree-ferns and palms. In the warm valleys there are large plantations of coca (Erythroxylon Coca), the annual produce of which is stated at 15,000,000 lb.

Coca (Erythroxylon coca) is a product peculiar to the eastern Andean slopes of Bolivia and Peru, where it has long been cultivated for its leaves.

These are sun-dried, packed in bales, and distributed throughout the sierra region, where coca is used by the natives as a stimulant.

Cocaine is also derived from coca leaves, and a considerably quantity of the drug is exported.

The coca shrub is most successfully cultivated at an elevation of 5000 to 6000 ft.

The manufacturing industries of Peru are confined chiefly to the treatment of agricultural and mineral products - the manufacture of sugar and rum from sugar cane, textiles from cotton and wool, wine and spirits from grapes, cigars and cigarettes from tobacco, chocolate from cacao, kerosene and benzine from crude petroleum, cocaine from coca, and refined metals from their ores.

Its breadth at Napo is only 120 ft., but at Coca it has widened to 1500 ft., and at its mouth to nearly 1 m.

The Napo is navigable for steamboats for some distance above the mouth of the Coca, and thence for canoes as far as the Cando cataract, 3332 ft.

The principal tributaries of the Napo are the Coca and Aguarico from the north, and the Curaray from the south.

The Coca forms the provisional boundary line between Ecuador and Colombia from its source to the Napo.

Coca, one of the most important plants of the country, is cultivated on the eastern slopes of the Andes at an altitude of 5000 to 6000 ft., where the temperature is uniform and frosts are unknown.

The two indigenous products which receive most attention, perhaps, are those of quinoa and coca.

Coca is highly esteemed by the natives, who masticate the leaf, and is also an article of export for medicinal purposes.

The revenues are derived principally from duties and fees on imports, excise taxes on spirits, wines, tobacco and sugar, general, mining taxes and export duties on minerals (except silver), export duties on rubber and coca, taxes on the profits of stock companies, fees for licences and patents, stamp taxes, and postal and telegraph revenues.

The Bolivian peasant coca growers, again mostly Quechua, have organized a mass movement in their own defense.

Or parents who feed their children a diet of junk food - 2 year olds drinking coca cola for crying out loud!

Soon after the gorge we found a shack where we could buy coca cola, chocolate, biscuits or sweets.

The overlap of Peru's coca cultivation regions and the traditional SL strongholds suggest SL involvement in aspects of local drug trade.

Coca Cola is set to add fizz to a major sporting event this summer.

Regarding coca  South American countries were presented as an example of where coca leaf chewing is legal and regulated.

The tie up with Coca Cola worth some £ 50m over three years was to help the Football League become more marketable.

McDonald's and Coca Cola spend millions a year to get you to buy their products.

Failing that, Diet Coke (' Un Coca Lite, s'il vous plait ' ).

What is the correct reaction to Coca Cola's latest marketing ploy?

Coca Cola and Unilever have just announce they will move toward such alternative refrigerants such as Greenfreeze by 2005.

Cocaine is a short acting powerful, central nervous system stimulant that comes from the coca bush which grows widely in South America.

Its use as a local anaesthetic (see Anaesthesia) makes it the most valuable of the coca alkaloids, and it is much used in ophthalmic practice.

So let's say your parents bought Coca Cola stock their entire life, left it all to you, and you are able to live off the dividend payments of the stock.

They used that money to buy part of Coca Cola in the form of common stock.

Perhaps the coca quad would look better for everyday wear.

Cocaine is made from the leaves of the coca plant.

Like a scholarship from many other larger companies like Pepsi or Target, a Coca Cola scholarship can help to alleviate the rising cost of college tuition.

Presented by the Coca Cola Scholars Foundation (a non-profit organization), there are 1,400 students who receive a Coca Cola scholarship each year totaling over 3 million dollars in dispersed funds.

Created in 1989, the main goal of the Coca Cola Scholars Foundation is to review applications from those interested in the main scholarship program and grant funds.

From all applicants, the Coca Cola Scholars Foundation will select 2,200 students in mid-November to be Semi-Finalists.

It is important to note that for a Coca Cola scholarship--unlike many other scholarship programs--students cannot be the child or grandchild of any Coca Cola employees, officers or owners.

The Coca Cola Scholars Foundation also is responsible for running the Coca Cola All State Community College Academic Team Program.

The program works differently than the main Coca Cola program in that students must find the Phi Theta Kappa nominator for their school.

Interested in applying to be a Coca Cola scholar?

Being a part of a larger program like Coca Cola can make a great impact on your college career.

Almost every guest who visits a Walt Disney World park will purchase a food or beverage item, which makes up over 75 million Coca Colas each year, and a staggering 10 million hamburgers.

Although most antique coca cola bottles are easily recognized by their distinctive shape, many of those made prior to 1916 had straight sides and are highly prized by collectors.

If you asked four different coca cola bottle collectors what the term antique coke bottle means to them, you most likely will get four different answers.

To add to the confusion, the popular auction website eBay, lists coca cola bottles from 1900 to present day as modern, and anything older than 1900 as antique.

Yet respected websites specializing in coca cola bottles, such as Reggie's Antique Coca Cola Bottles, list bottles through 1965.

Generally, most old coca cola bottle collectors use the term antique for bottles that are more than 50 years old.

Frank Robinson, Pemberton's bookkeeper, named the drink Coca Cola and with his unique script handwriting wrote out that name.

That distinctive handwriting is still used on all coca cola bottles and products to this day.