Word: generally
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...where does this leave the FDO's policy on homophobic roommates? The policy remains a bad one because it treats homosexuality as an exception to the general rule of first-year housing. Every other complaint about rooming is handled after arriving at school. Why should homosexuality be any different? A valid judgement cannot be made before knowing the person...
After decades of disputes with the government and with the United States Surgeon-General, U.S. tobacco company Philip Morris, the largest in the country, made a cynical publicity bid earlier this month when it at last recognized that smoking causes cancer and other major diseases and that tobacco is addictive...
...would go out of business. It is only because Philip Morris knows that such pious statements have little impact that it publishes them. After all, the scientific evidence regarding the impact of smoking has been around for quite a while, at least since 1964, when the first Surgeon General's report relating smoking causally to lung cancer, coronary artery disease, chronic bronchitis and emphysema came...
...recognizing the health hazards of smoking, Philip Morris and other tobacco companies may just be attempting to avert legal action such as that undertaken by many state attorneys general in recent years. Lawsuits since 1995 have sought to make cigarette makers reimburse the costs of smoking-related health care, arguing that companies had intentionally misled smokers into thinking that cigarettes were safe. Openly stating the risks now could free companies of any charges of misrepresentation in the future...
Nader, a 1958 Harvard Law School (HLS) graduate, spoke before a packed room of nearly 500 people at the HLS Forum. Held in the Ames Courtroom, the Forum annually invites distinguished individuals to speak before members of the Harvard community and the general public...