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According to Fieser, the charcoal for the Lark filter was specially developed to screen out gases known to depress the action of cilia in the respiratory tract. While Larks are currently the only cigarette to use this special charcoal, there is no reason why other cigarette manufacturers could not add the substance to their filters and thereby achieve the same probable level of safety as Larks...
Australia's "immigration apartheid" dates from the latter half of the 19th century, when 50,000 Chinese flocked there to work farms and gold mines; white colonists, fearful that the newcomers would depress wage levels, clamored for restrictive laws. Today fewer than 80,000 Asians live permanently in the country, and experience little racial discrimination, but only a few "distinguished and highly qualified Asians" are ever granted residence permits...
...deficit after another through repeated recessions and persistent slack in our economy. If we were to try to force budget balance by drastic cuts in expenditures-necessarily at the expense of defense and other vital programs-we would not only endanger the security of the country; we would so depress demand, production and employment that tax revenues would fall and leave the Government budget still in deficit...
...statements have more power to depress the average U.S. businessman, beset as he is by a daily avalanche of forms, reports and correspondence, than the late "Engine Charlie" Wilson's axiom that "nothing takes place in the world of government or business that is not motivated by a piece of paper." Every repetition of this dictum, however, brings a beatific smile to the face of bulky, deliberate Milferd Aaron Spayd, 61, of Dayton, Ohio. Thanks to U.S. industry's ever deeper entrapment in paperwork, Spayd's Standard Register Co. has surged from onetime bankruptcy to buoyant prosperity...
...Boylston St., McCann proposes to depress Mem Drive and construct an overpass at about the same height as the Lars Anderson Bridge which crosses the Charles from Soldiers Field. Although the overpass may "knock out a few trees along the River," McCann maintains that it "will not disrupt the landscaping or be high enough to block out light from Eliot House...