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Word: arounders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...related decisions," does a tobacco company actually mean smokers should quit? Certainly not; it would go out of business. It is only because Philip Morris knows that such pious statements have little impact that it publishes them. After all, the scientific evidence regarding the impact of smoking has been around for quite a while, at least since 1964, when the first Surgeon General's report relating smoking causally to lung cancer, coronary artery disease, chronic bronchitis and emphysema came...

Author: By Marianne C. S. brun-rovet, | Title: Smoke in Our Eyes | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...fact is, today's smokers, especially heavy smokers, know that smoking is bad for them, but that knowledge doesn't usually stop them. They develop a sort of split personality when it comes to their bad habit: ask any addict around campus (and there are still quite a few out there, despite enormous social pressures to quit), and he or she will tell you that she pushes the health-hazard right to the back of her mind whenever she smokes...

Author: By Marianne C. S. brun-rovet, | Title: Smoke in Our Eyes | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

Most smokers feel powerless in the face of addiction; witness the many old people you see in the street nowadays, who despite ill health and even lack of money, will simply carry on buying cigarettes. We've all seen old men rummaging around in their pocket for coins at a Walgreen's counter to buy their third packet of cigarettes that day--packs they probably can't really afford. Ask them why they still smoke, and they'll answer with a raspy voice, "I'm too old to quit." The opposite story, that of young people who thoughtlessly take...

Author: By Marianne C. S. brun-rovet, | Title: Smoke in Our Eyes | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

...going to turn the giant ship of Harvard Law School around," Nader said, "so that it can go down in history as one of the greatest instruments of justice and institution building of any group in the United States...

Author: By Imtiyaz H. Delawala and Imtiyaz H. Delawala, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: Social Justice key to Law, Nader Says | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

With 3:35 remaining in the game, Brown freshman Chris Legg darted down the center of the ice on a breakaway. He deked left and cut right, switching the puck to his forehand completely around a falling Prestifilippo. Legg had a split second to set himself and put the puck into the net while the keeper lay vertical along...

Author: By Michael R. Volonnino, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: The "V" Spot | 11/1/1999 | See Source »

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