Word: congressman
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...more than six hours, the top executives of the nation's seven largest tobacco companies underwent a hostile televised grilling before California Congressman Henry Waxman's House health subcommittee. The executives denied that cigarettes are addictive or that their companies manipulate nicotine content to keep smokers hooked. Cigarettes are no more addictive than coffee, tea or Twinkies, allowed one executive. "The difference between cigarettes and Twinkies," responded Waxman sharply, "is death...
...advisory warning American citizens to stay away from Guatemala, and the U.S. Peace Corps has ordered its more than 200 workers in the country back to the capital. Even there, the assassination April 1 of the president of the Constitutional Court and the sniper bullet that wounded a Congressman five days later have added to the instability. "Whoever is behind all this wants to provoke a state of emergency," says government investigator Claudio Porres. "They want us to return to a dark past when everything was resolved through a military coup." President Ramiro de Leon Carpio stepped back from declaring...
DIED. WILLIAM NATCHER, 84, Congressman; in Washington. The Kentucky Democrat was living proof that much of success is just showing up: in his 40 years on the Hill, no one showed up as often as Natcher, whose career-long record of never missing a roll-call vote (18,401 votes in all) ended with his worsening health last month...
...their vigilance. Astonishingly, institutions like banks, insurance companies and brokerage houses now hold trillions of dollars of unregulated derivatives contracts that are not recorded on their books. Thus no one, including the firms themselves, knows just what pressures may be building up. In an effort to remedy that, Congressman James Leach of Iowa, the ranking Republican on the House Banking Committee, sponsored a bill last January to create a federal derivatives commission with broad oversight authority. And the Comptroller of the Currency has begun to require banks to disclose the dollar value of all the derivatives contracts they hold that...
...campaign to snuff out cigarettes continued to heat up as California Congressman Henry Waxman released a 1983 study conducted by a Philip Morris researcher indicating that nicotine is addictive to rats; the Congressman charged that the firm tried to suppress the report. Philip Morris denied the allegation...