Word: fight
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With the fall just beginning, activists on campus dream about the battles awaiting them. Which issues will share the spotlight this year? Although time will reveal all, we can be sure about one thing: The fight over ROTC is hardly over, especially after the deans rejected last April's pro-ROTC vote in the Undergraduate Council...
...Horton, a black carpenter and contractor who smoked two packs of Pall Malls a day, developed emphysema and lung cancer and filed suit against the American Tobacco Co. for $1.5 million in damages in 1986. Horton died in early 1987, but Barrett and the Horton family kept up the fight...
...inability to hold a job until he went to work as a paralegal doing closely held research for Brown & Williamson Tobacco. The object of Williams' work was to determine what B&W execs knew about the effects of tobacco and when they knew it, to help company lawyers fight future damage claims. Out of a sometimes fuddled sense of righteousness, Williams began smuggling documents from the B&W offices and copying them. The pilfered papers--which among other things documented the company's efforts to market to kids and its knowledge years ago of nicotine's addictive effects--eventually found...
Taking risks focuses the mind. Such activities are bracing, to say the least, whether you are a BASE jumper, a surgeon performing a quadruple-bypass operation or an actor executing a sword fight onstage while spouting Shakespeare. Most of us don't have work that is this invigorating. Engaging in risky activities makes us feel alive. It also satisfies a curiosity about our abilities--and how we handle challenges. It can utterly focus your mind. There's nothing like it. TIM MOFFET Vail, Colo...
...example. But not during trade negotiations. Beijing already had one "gotcha" last spring when president Clinton balked at admitting the nation to the World Trade Organization. Entry to the organization is a huge issue for the Chinese, who hope it would boost their economy and end the fiery annual fight over most-favored-nation status...