Word: newports
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first quarter to Philip Morris (total 1982 sales: $9.1 billion). The big two, which together have about 65% of the market, are the Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola of cigarettedom, far ahead of third-place Brown & Williamson (Kool, Raleigh, Viceroy), which has 10.9%. Following those three are Lorillard (Kent, Newport, True), American Brands (Carlton, Pall Mall, Lucky Strike) and the Liggett Group (L & M, Eve, Chesterfield...
Last February the CDC sent Holmberg to Minnesota to help local authorities cope with an outbreak of intestinal disease caused by Salmonella newport. Groping for a lead, Holmberg visited several of the victims in their homes. "I stuck my head in their refrigerators. I asked things you would never ask your friends, as nicely as possible, about diarrhea, bowel habits, food preparation, how often they washed their hands, drug use." Working with local health authorities, Holmberg eventually traced the probable cause of the disease to a herd of cows in a muddy field in South Dakota...
...case that had everything: European aristocracy and American money, a Newport palace and a fiercely loyal servant, a philandering stepfather and vengeful children, a blond heiress wife and a brunette TV-star mistress...
Wright wittily eviscerates the adolescents and haughty matrons who defended Claus (Character Witness Ann Brown, one of Rhode Island's grandest dames, addressed a lawyer "in a tone surely known to every butler in Newport"). But for all its malicious detail, The Von Bülow Affair never really answers the question that nags at every reader: Did Claus really do it? Wright plainly believes Von Bülow is guilty, and even Defense Attorney John Sheehan labeled the prosecution's case "overwhelming." But the examination of the clues is so clumsily marshaled that the reader is left...
...summer long the challengers and defenders will race separately until, some time before Sept. 8, both sides will have picked their representatives. Tourists in Newport will not see much of this, or in many cases, even look for it. On the spectator craft flanking the triangular 24.3-mile course, good binoculars are necessary just to tell one boat from the other. Back in town, a lot of broiling people in madras shorts and Top-Siders will drink large quantities of beer, and toast being at the scene of an international occasion. Nobody is quite sure what is going on-something...