Word: chesterfields
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This year's recipients are Carl "Larry" L. Malm '00 of Leverett House and Blue Hill, Maine; Sarun Charumilind '00 of Leverett House and Chesterfield, Missouri; Sarah D. Kalloch '00 of Kirkland House and Hamilton, Massachusetts; Charisa A. Smith '00 of Eliot House and Lawrenceville, New Jersey, and Sinead B. Walsh '00 of Winthrop House and Dublin, Ireland...
...dilemma is even thornier because a whole subset of American companies--an extremely large subset--remains blissfully unaffected by what is happening overseas. Like Feldenkreis' Supreme International, such companies are driven almost entirely by domestic sales. Privately owned EMP Manufacturing, a maker of screws, bolts and other fasteners in Chesterfield Township, Mich., about 25 miles north of Detroit, does $4 million in sales a year, mostly to the automotive industry. EMP is basking in several years of record-breaking sales. "I don't think it's affected the Big Three at all," says general manager Steve Novak, who notes that...
...year on his "roof," from paying off the local police precinct to buying the higher-up connections in the militia and the FSB (the main successor organization to the KGB). Since he has to spend another $500,000 a year to protect his other bar, the quieter Chesterfield's, Steele loses 10 to 20 percent of his annual profits just to the "interests...
...wonder LeBow gleefully handed out smoking guns as if they were product samples. The smallest U.S. cigarette maker, whose brands include Chesterfield, L&M and Eve, admitted what just about everyone outside the industry long held as fact: that cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, heart disease and emphysema. In another affirmation of the obvious, Liggett acknowledged that nicotine is an addictive substance. That refuted the sworn denials that seven industry leaders, including a Liggett representative, made before Congress in 1994. Says LeBow of the thinking behind last week's confessions: "It was a business, a moral and a personal decision...
...news that Liggett Group decided to settle lawsuits with 22 states by agreeing to admit that cigarette smoking is addictive depended very much on where in the morass of tobacco litigation you currently sat. States Attorneys General pointed to the fact that the North Carolina-based maker of Chesterfield, Lark and L&M cigarettes agreed to up-front payments of about $25 million, plus 2.5 percent of its pretax profits over the next 25 years, as evidence that tobacco companies are in some way responsible for the health-care costs states are suing to recover. And the fact that Liggett...