Word: carolina
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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OTIS GAITHER, 23; LANCASTER, SOUTH CAROLINA; construction worker...
...sooner did advance word of the settlement make the rounds last week than the rest of the tobacco industry raced into the North Carolina court to keep Liggett's papers under wraps. The cigarette makers claim that the documents are protected by the industry's joint defense privilege on attorney-client communications because they bear on Liggett's dealings with the other companies. However, a few files have already been distributed, and other documents are likely to leak out. "It's very hard to say 'attorney-client privilege' when half the world will be seeing them," says Henry Miller...
...sign of lessening. With 22 states in the fray so far, others are certain to join in. And companies face more than a dozen private class-action suits and hundreds of individual lawsuits. At the same time, cigarette makers--minus Liggett--will soon troop to court in Greensboro, North Carolina, to hear a judge's decision on whether to allow new fda rules that say tobacco billboards must be at least 1,000 ft. from schools and that require young smokers to show photo...
...Texas is not alone. In Durham, North Carolina, 10 banks were robbed in January and February, compared with 14 all last year. In 18 counties in central Florida, robberies are already up 61%. Since January, there have been rashes of robberies in Houston, Atlanta, Detroit and Orlando, Florida. And this comes on top of big jumps last year: Colorado, up 65%; Arizona, up 68%; Virginia, three times the level of 1994. Eau Claire County, Wisconsin, which had not had a bank robbery for almost two years, has suffered four in the past four months...
...true that the Chicago Bulls are going to clone several Michael Jordans so that they can win the N.B.A. championship forever? WILFORD WARE CORBIN Franklin, North Carolina...