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...news that Liggett Group decided to settle lawsuits with 22 states by agreeing to admit that cigarette smoking is addictive depended very much on where in the morass of tobacco litigation you currently sat. States Attorneys General pointed to the fact that the North Carolina-based maker of Chesterfield, Lark and L&M cigarettes agreed to up-front payments of about $25 million, plus 2.5 percent of its pretax profits over the next 25 years, as evidence that tobacco companies are in some way responsible for the health-care costs states are suing to recover. And the fact that Liggett...
...wife Susie, 37, were close to losing Susie's Fish & Grill, which the couple sank their life savings into only five months before. Manuel, who had stopped by the cotton gin (owned by the Terrys, of course) for a cup of coffee and joined the lottery pool on a lark, says they could not have held out much longer. "This month I really didn't even want to come to work," he says. "I opened the checkbook, and we were down to our last $136." Another winner, Gene Terry, 61, says he had got so far into debt that...
When Johnson won the 200, he may have become the first man to snare the double, but he was only the second person of the evening. Perec had decided to run the 200 on a lark after her victory in the 400. Some lark. She powered past Merlene Ottey of Jamaica, whose medal was the sixth of her career--all silver or bronze. Afterward, Perec apologized to her fellow Caribbean for depriving her of her first gold. A delightful woman who models for Claude Montana and spars with the French press over her move to the States, Perec causes...
...lark, I asked her to the City-Step formal as friends," Liston says...
DIED. EDWARD LOWE, 75, inventor; in Sarasota, Florida. He first created it as a lark for a friend in 1947, but Lowe soon realized its potential--and for a while his own name became almost as famous as the catchy moniker he bestowed on the household staple that earned him millions of dollars: Kitty Litter...