Word: merryman
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...dozens of studies that have appeared in scientific literature over the past several years, should fuel the campaign ; by doctors and antismoking advocates to impose more restrictions on smoking in the workplace and in public buildings and conveyances. Cigarette manufacturers are already taking issue with Koop's warning. Walker Merryman, vice president of the Tobacco Institute, a Washington-based lobbying group, says the evidence is incomplete and inconclusive. "It is clear that this is more of a political than a scientific report," he says, arguing that the link between passive smoking and disease is inferential...
...cigarette manufacturers, of course, applauded the secretary's decision. Walker Merryman, a spokesman for the Tobacco Institute, a lobbying group, said: "We support the secretary's decision.... We hope the [educational] campaign will be factual and provide a rational basis for a free and informed choice, which all adults should make...
Surprisingly, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Noncommissioned Officers Association, and the Reserve Officers Association--all presumably dedicated to the well-being of American soldiers--were vehement in their opposition to discontinuing the cigarette discount. According to Merryman, "They were concerned that, if half of the armed forces are smokers, loss of one of their benefits--buying discounted cigarettes--would be quite a blow." But isn't the loss of thousands of their members to cancer and heart disease each year a greater blow...
...were looking at the end product, the perception of those who hire," said Richard Brecker, chairman of Brecker & Merryman, the management consulting company that conducted the survey of 21 arbitrarily selected "top" business schools. For the survey, the firm asked personnel directors to rate schools' graduates in more than 40 different areas...