Word: established
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...last week, on the sale and advertising of cigarettes. These days, absolutely nothing is coming up roses for Big Tobacco. All year it's been battered by mounting lawsuits and seesawing stock prices. And now the new rules, part of a bid to stop smoking among teenagers, establish a precedent the industry has feared for decades. Clinton signed an Executive Order that subjects tobacco to regulation by the Food and Drug Administration. As a twist of the knife, the FDA claims its new authority over cigarettes by defining them as the delivery system for an addictive drug, nicotine. Alphabetically, that...
Using nerves from the rat's chest muscles for the bridge, Cheng carefully connected the insulated white matter on one side of the spinal cord to uninsulated gray matter on the other. That way, the nerves in the gray matter would grow toward the white and, he hoped, re-establish contact. The investigators used a natural adhesive called fibrin to anchor the bridge in place...
...vetoed this bill, he would have lost 5 points in the polls. He held out long enough to extract some concessions from the Republicans, but if Clinton had vetoed the bill, it would have been contrary to everything he has been doing over the last year to establish himself as a sensible moderate. Besides, Clinton's promises to reform welfare -->