Word: lawton
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Minnesota, Matt Lawton went 3-for-4 with...
...spit-and-shine military town of Lawton, Okla., real men ain't supposed to cry. This is the home of Fort Sill, a U.S. Army post, where soldiers learn to kill with gun, mortar and missile, where the big boys belly up to the bar at Gertlestone's pub and down stiff shots of Jaegermeister, where the measure of a man lies partly in his ability to tuck his pain away in a place where nobody--nobody--can see it. No tears allowed in plain sight...
...seven-piece band, that commandment at first brims with a kind of inclusiveness as whites, African Americans, Asians, Hispanics as well as one Croatian immigrant clap their hands, rocking with the zealotry of the converted as they all sing Lord, Purify My Heart. On the small scale of Lawton's First Assembly of God church, the inspiration is palpable, touching, poignant. But in the grander scheme, the Bible verse raises other questions: Who on earth will command? And who must obey...
...wanted to protect our children from being ravaged by tobacco," said Governor Lawton Chiles. He could hardly stop smiling after today's decision, and with good reason: The companies agreed to pay Florida $11.3 billion to settle the state's lawsuit to recover the costs of caring for sick smokers. After weeks of testimony that included the admission by Philip Morris CEO Geoffrey Bible that smoking "might" be responsible for as many as 100,000 deaths, Big Tobacco has packed up and left this state. Next stop: Washington, D.C., where the $368 billion national settlement remains to be renegotiated...
...statistics which help finger tobacco as the cause of certain health problems. Tobacco companies say the law, the only one of its kind in the nation, violates the constitutional right of due process by giving the state rights an ordinary plaintiff would not have. Florida Governor Lawton Chiles said the Supreme Court's decision keeps intact a law which will help lead to justice in tobacco related cases. "I think this is the last constitutional hurdle that big tobacco is going to try to put in our way. So I think we're getting closer to the day of tobacco...