Word: lunged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mickey Kantor as Commerce Secretary after Ron Brown's death; who persuaded Clinton to rediscover the virtues of being pro-environment; who twisted entertainment executives' arms until they agreed to a "voluntary" TV-violence rating system; who shepherded the huge telecommunications bill to completion. Gore, whose sister died of lung cancer, has also been the single most persistent champion inside the White House of Clinton's year-old campaign to discourage teen smoking, which culminated last week in the decision to allow the FDA to regulate tobacco products for the first time...
...which the industry beat back lawsuits from health-impaired smokers, it lost a worrisome one earlier this month. Following the disclosure of documents showing that industry executives sought to hide their knowledge that their product was addictive, a Florida jury awarded $750,000 to a longtime smoker who developed lung cancer. Though an Indianapolis, Indiana, jury handed the tobacco industry a break late last week by finding it not guilty in a similar case, more than 200 individual lawsuits nationwide await, plus 14 by states that are suing tobacco companies to retrieve tens of billions of dollars in Medicaid costs...
AILING. MEL TORME, 70, velvet-voiced song stylist; after a stroke; in Los Angeles. Torme was hospitalized in guarded condition after developing pneumonia and a partially collapsed lung...
DIED. MEL TAYLOR, 62, drummer for the Ventures, who were known for the theme of TV's Hawaii Five-O; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. The Ventures' classic Surf Rider was featured in the 1994 film Pulp Fiction...
AWARDED. To GRADY CARTER, 66, ex-smoker and survivor of lung cancer; a landmark $750,000 in a liability suit against Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co.; in Jacksonville, Florida. Said Carter, a smoker for 44 years: "Somebody needed to take these people...