Word: lawyerly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years the tobacco industry has said to anyone who will listen, 'We don't market our products to children,' despite the fact that virtually all new smokers start as children and are addicted before they are old enough to purchase the product legally," said Matthew Myers, a lawyer for the National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids...
...perhaps the most revealing statement, Liggett confessed that cigarette companies like itself have long aimed their pitches directly at teenagers--something the rest of the industry denies. Declared Matthew Myers, a lawyer for the National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids: "For 30 years the tobacco industry has said to anyone who will listen, 'We don't market our products to children,' despite the fact that virtually all new smokers start as children and are addicted before they are old enough to purchase the product legally. Today that claim is dead...
...comes true. The premise of Liar Liar is that all the false promises and compliments that ease our paths through the day, all the little evasions that oil the wheels of social and professional, as well as sexual, intercourse are suddenly unavailable to Fletcher. And remember, he's a lawyer...
...Justice Department lawyer Seth P. Waxman '73, yesterday, urging the Supreme Court to uphold the 1996 Communications Decency Act in Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union...
...reporter Laura Jareski that Money Management Analytical Research of Houston claimed contained false information and helped put it out of business. The seven person jury ordered Dow Jones & Co. which publishes the Journal, and Jareski to pay $22.7 million in actual damages, plus $200 million in punitive damages. A lawyer for Dow Jones said he would ask U.S District Judge Ewing Werlein to throw out the decision...