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...those cases come to trial, tobacco-industry lawyers could argue that although it might sound a bit callous to say so out loud, some of the 400,000 or so Americans who die before their time because of smoking would otherwise be a drain on the Medicare and Medicaid and welfare systems for the years they would have lived if smoking hadn't rendered them safely deceased...
...Trent Lott managed to block the cigarette tax proposal by Sen. Orrin Hatch and Sen. Edward Kennedy, warning that he would pull the budget-balancing pact off the Senate floor if the changes were approved. "The President is not about to see all that hard work go down the drain, " White House spokesman Mike McCurry told reporters. Thanks to Lott and Gingrich...
...last column, some readers may have noticed, there was a word that I actually didn't write. The word I did write disappeared somewhere, down the drain, wherever RAM goes when you turn the computer off. Apparently that word can only appear on a news page if it's in a direct quote, and quoting myself doesn't seem to be an option. So that it would not be missed, it was conveniently replaced by "fornicate with." I think the sutures showed...
Selby is the only daughter of a British physicist who immigrated to the United States during the "brain drain" of the 1930s. Her parents met at the University of London, where her mother played the role of Cecily in Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and her father was a stage manager for the same play...
...year run. A year later, Ford claimed that turf with the Taurus. In the next 10 years, Chevrolet and Pontiac sales slid 37%, Cadillac's 42%, Buick's 49%. Oldsmobile's crashed 71%. The company lost a total of $30 billion from 1990 through 1992, a cash drain that amounted to nearly $50 million for every working day every year for three years, before the GM board finally staged the 1992 coup that installed the present management team under chairman Jack Smith...