Word: packed
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...legal cloud that has hung over U.S. tobacco companies for years lifted slightly last week. In Philadelphia, a federal appeals court ruled that Philip Morris, the Liggett Group, the Loews Corp. and Loews Theatres did not have to compensate Antonio Cipollone for the death of his wife Rose, a pack-a-day smoker who died of lung cancer in 1984. The court's reason: cigarette-package health warnings that are mandatory under federal law protect the tobacco giants from claims that they fail to provide adequate notice of smoking's hazards. The decision in the liability lawsuit may affect almost...
...competitors. Little Joe Kennedy is going to wipe out some very worthy opposition in the race for Tip O'Neill's seat. As was once said of Uncle Ted, if his name had been Edward Moore instead of Edward Moore Kennedy, he'd be at the back of the pack...
...Brits don't like to invent solutions. They prefer to muddle through to one. This one took a few centuries, but they managed it: take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed...
Passions have never run higher about where and when smokers may light up. "There's a new tyrannical majority that wants to deprive the rest of us of our rights," charges New York City Television Reporter David Diaz, a pack-a- day man. Replies ABC-TV Washington Correspondent Sam Donaldson, an ex- smoker who has been zealously lobbying the White House to ban smoking at press conferences: "I don't think smokers have any rights when it comes to a collision of smokers' vs. nonsmokers' wishes...
Holway said an in-house poll taken in January showed him leading the pack of candidates...