Word: jim
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...smokers, one day a year isn't so bad to have to confront the truth: cigarettes kill. "Probably the group with the least amount of people wanting to stop smoking are the teenage and young adult smokers, and that is disturbing for all of us," says Jim R. Giebfried, director of cessation programs in Massachusetts for the American Cancer Society and the Smoker's Quit Line (1-800-TRY-TO-STOP). "Very often college students are in a location where they may be affected by other smokers, like at parties," said Giebfried, a graduate of the Harvard School of Public...
...National Transportation Safety Board is determined to proceed with caution this time, dampening the kind of speculation that flourished after TWA Flight 800 went down. Chairman Jim Hall, who was overshadowed by the FBI in that investigation, has appeared at nearly every press conference, emphasizing the importance of waiting for the facts--and the analysis of the black boxes...
...paper had agreed to share the issue's ad revenue with the Staples Center without telling its reporters or readers about the fiscal arrangement. To give the subject of the paper's journalism a share in revenues seemed like a dangerous compromise of the paper's objectivity. Reporter Jim Newton, whose beat includes Mayor Richard Riordan's office, explains in layman's terms, "If I had a financial arrangement with Mayor Riordan and wrote about him, I'd be fired. It's a conflict of interest...
...Jim Brown, Football Hall of Famer
...disconnected, to begin what appears to have been an emergency descent that later turned into a hellish plunge at a speed greater than that which the aircraft was designed for. The flight data recovered indicates only that until then it had been an "uneventful" flight, according to NTSB chairman Jim Hall. More than anything else, the data from the first black box only emphasizes the need to recover the second one - the voice-data recorder - from the ocean floor...