Word: counterfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with or without any money, the sweeping settlement is a crucial moment in three decades of public and private efforts in court to combat tobacco use. Critics first relied on research and education to counter smoking--a tactic that produced plenty of posters but not much change in consumers' habits. Legal attacks proved more successful. "We were always outgunned at first," says John Banzhaf, a law professor at George Washington University and founder of Action on Smoking & Health, an antitobacco group. But that nose-to-nose approach led to victories ranging from bans on smoking in public places to Liggett...
...prime rate from 8.25 percent to 8.5 percent, and in turn a hike in the rates of the millions of consumer and business loans that are linked to the prime. Despite criticism that at its current 2.3 percent rate, inflation is quiescent, Greenspan thinks a rise is necessary to counter the inflationary pressures of high demand and low unemployment. The Fed hopes tightening credit will produce a 'soft landing' for the nation's economy by slowing growth. Because Greenspan had hinted for months that a rise might be coming, Wall Street's reaction to the news was mild. Wondering whether...
...hangover. The General Accounting Office, the Congressional Budget Office and the private Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments have suggested dramatically paring back--and in some cases, killing--the programs. They point out that the Pentagon conceived the F-22, its superstealthy fighter, more than a decade ago to counter two 21st century Soviet warplanes then on the drawing boards. But U.S. officials concede that the Russians have scrapped one of the planes, and that only a few of the second are likely to be built...
...strategy for getting its hands on the F-22 is, some Pentagon officials say, a "self-licking ice cream cone." First, lower the plane's cost by building more of them, then sell the extras overseas. The problem is that the Air Force says it needs the plane to counter, in part, U.S. airplanes that have been sold overseas. Then, of course, General Ralston could add the F-22 to his chart of potentially hostile foreign warplanes. Says former Navy rear admiral and aviator Eugene Carroll Jr. of the private Center for Defense Information: "We're in an arms race...
...Alzheimer's disease, a large fraction, 19 in all, seemed to have escaped the confusion and memory loss that make this form of dementia so devastating. The reason? As Snowdon and his team reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week, these nuns, unlike their counter-parts whose symptoms were severe, had not suffered from strokes--particularly the small strokes so commonplace in the elderly. Only 57% of the stroke-free nuns developed dementia, compared with 93% of nuns with a history of ministrokes...