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Accommodations are easy to find this time of year in the 20,000 hotel rooms in the Big Easy www.neworleanscvb.com) often at bargain rates. Some 30 restaurants, including Arnaud's, Galatoire's, Bacco, Antoine's and Tujague's, serve the traditional reveillon (awakening) dinners, just like those that the city's early inhabitants enjoyed after midnight Mass...
...desk of Luciano Infelisi, a crusading magistrate, who was appalled by the absenteeism. Infelisi began to issue warrants, and he demanded that 20 ministries and state agencies hand over the names of employees with high absenteeism records. Before Italy's 3.8 million civil servants could say "Per Bacco! What's going on?" they were being upbraided, and some were even led away to jail in handcuffs...
Both companies could use a shot of some sort. The fifth-ranked U.S. to bacco company, Lorillard last year earned $29 million on sales of $510 million, but its profits have barely budged since the late 1950s, when its filter, Kent, stole the low-tar-and-nico-tine march on the industry. Chairman Manuel Yellen, 54, last year offered a new filter brand, True, both plain and mentholated; though True is highly successful so far, sales have just begun to make up for its heavy introductory costs in a market now choked with competition...
...exception of a successful amendment by Louisiana's Democratic Senator Allen J. Ellender, chairman of the Agriculture Committee, to limit the program to two years, all attempts at weakening the bill were defeated. Delaware Republican John J. Williams introduced an amend ment that could end subsidies on to bacco, which for 30 years has received supports as one of the U.S.'s six "basic" agricultural commodities. Nonsmoker Williams wondered "whether the tax payers should subsidize the production of this commodity, which the Surgeon General and other responsible physicians have said is harmful to the American people." Tobacco-state...
...expect any tariff reductions. But they do hope that the new trade act will enable Washington to forestall steeper Common Market barriers against U.S. tobacco. Cries Tobacco Institute President George V. Allen: "If we get frozen out of the Common Market, the adverse effect on the American to bacco industry will be tremendous...