Word: blunter
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Morgan notes that the eight miners were smokers or ex-smokers and suggests that tobacco, not coal dust, was the real culprit. In an editorial accompanying the report in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Editor William Barclay is even blunter: "The taxpayer will be penalized twice; first in subsidizing those who grow tobacco and then in compensating coal miners who smoke tobacco...
...agency has jurisdiction only when federal laws are violated-but apparently it was misinterpreted by Carter as evidence that the shooting was an attempted assassination. Webster cautiously called Carter's use of the word a "possibly acceptable interpretation of the available facts." But another FBI official had a blunter reaction to the President's statement. Said he: "Premature is the kindest word. We haven't eliminated any theories. It could have been night riders, or someone who heard Jordan's speech, or someone who knew the woman and didn't want her riding with...