Word: cigar
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...streets of La Saguesera bustle with fruit and vegetable stands, stores displaying religious artifacts, and cafes that serve jet-black Cuban coffee; at dusk the air is filled with the nostalgic beat of Latin music and the aroma of sofrita, the distinctive Cuban seasoning. Even the craft of Cuban cigar making is flourishing in Florida; the leaves come from Nicaragua but are grown from Cuban seeds...
Puffing on his first victory cigar of the year, McCurdy expressed satisfaction with the meet. "We ran well because we were right up there at the beginning. Most of our guys were running with or ahead of Brown's number three...
...eventually closed rather than meet higher health standards. The workers were never warned that the fiber concentration far exceeded the unsafe standards then in effect or even that asbestos was dangerous. Company doctors told ailing employees to stop smoking. When one protested that he smoked nothing but an occasional cigar, a Tyler plant manager told him he must be drinking too much milk-the spot on his lung X ray was a calcium deposit. When 31% of the rats exposed to one type of asbestos dust in a medical experiment developed lung cancer, an industry researcher argued that it must...
Close, But No Cigar...
...THERE'S not one successful businessman I know, Duddy, who hasn't got something locked in the closet," a wrinkle-faced, cigar-chomping Jewish businessman assures the nineteen-year-old entrepreneur. "A fire, maybe. A quick bankruptcy, the swindling of a widow...funny business with a mortgage...a diddle with an insurance agent. It's either that or you go under, so decide right...