Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thinking: Big Tobacco knowingly sells a defective product that, when used exactly as intended (i.e., you smoke the thing), addicts the consumer to nicotine and eventually sickens and kills him. Big Tobacco should pay billions in damages, not only to smokers and their families but also to state governments to cover the smokers' Medicaid expenses...
...Assuming the Risk: The Mavericks, the Lawyers, and the Whistle-Blowers Who Beat Big Tobacco (Little, Brown; 384 pages; $24.95), Michael Orey, an editor at the Wall Street Journal, describes the American journey from a public attitude of "Tough luck, buddy" to the group-grievance activism of the '90s, brought to lucrative fruition in lawsuits--by Mississippi, Minnesota and 38 other states--that have extruded from the tobacco industry the promise of close to $250 billion, to be paid out over 25 years...
...nicotine's addictive effects--eventually found their way into the national media. Williams' dossier, along with the whistle blowing of B&W's former chief of research, Jeffrey Wigand (whose story will be told in the upcoming movie The Insider), formed the core of the states' case against Big Tobacco...
...decided to wrestle men before I decided to get giant breasts. Once I started making the big bucks, I could get out and get some big breasts...
GEORGE W. BUSH Texas massacre spotlights Guv's slavish devotion to N.R.A. Where's the "compassion," Big...