Word: evil
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...annual payments starting at $10 billion and rising eventually to $15 billion, in perpetuity, will be used to compensate states for health-care costs related to treating smokers, pay individuals who successfully press suit, finance health research and promote education programs aimed at deterring youths from taking up the evil weed. To that end, Joe Camel will soon become a has-been and the Marlboro Man will be put out to pasture, because the industry also agreed to sweeping reforms that proscribe the use of human or cartoon forms in advertising. Billboards, stadium signs, T-shirt giveaways and other promotional...
...outcome back in March, when this all began with the obvious but startling admission by one of the smallest tobacco companies, Liggett Group, that cigarettes are addictive and have been pointedly marketed at kids for years. The confession signaled the first real break from the industry's see-no-evil posture. Reportedly, the event prompted North Carolina Governor James Hunt to call his friend Bill Clinton. The White House then got in touch with Mississippi's Moore to ask if talks with the industry might prove productive...
CLUELESSNESS. Melodrama at its best involves a conflict between intelligent good and cunning evil. But it's easier just to have smart people do dumb things. The noble intentions of The Lost World's team of scientists--trying to protect the dinosaurs from a group of rapacious hunters--are undercut by some laughably inane fieldwork. They take close-up photos of the beasts with incredibly noisy cameras that are bound to startle any dino into a frenzy; they kidnap a T. rex baby to mend its leg while Big Mama prowls closer. It's knaves vs. fools in the Jurassic...
...Jane Whitefield, a lone operative of stunning beauty and bone-crushing martial-arts skills. She is half Seneca Indian and half Irish American, and her useful talent is to function as a very unofficial one-woman witness-relocation program, helping people disappear into new identities when the forces of evil are about to pounce. She thinks of herself as "a guide," and she most often guides with brainpower, computer savvy, a delightfully devious nature and a library of false identities, fleshed out with features like credit histories, that she has built up for herself and possible clients over the years...
...believe that most women are now aware of the evil side of Premarin, a medication that's prescribed to relieve the uncomfortable symptoms of menopause. It's made from the urine of pregnant mares and involves the pain and torture each year of nearly 100,000 helpless adult horses. For most of their 11 months' pregnancy, they are confined and tethered in narrow stalls on concrete floors while catheterized to devices that collect their urine. They can't move more than a step or two in any direction or lie down. And because Premarin farmers receive more money for concentrated...