Word: packs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Attorneys Alton Maddox Jr. and C. Vernon Mason -- Brawley and her family had refused to cooperate with the inquiry. Seeming to confirm growing suspicions about the case, Perry McKinnon, a private investigator and former assistant to Sharpton, told the New York Daily News that the whole story was a "pack of lies...
Rose Cipollone was intensely stubborn, especially about her cigarette habit. The New Jersey housewife often ordered groceries she did not need just to get a fresh pack of smokes delivered. She ignored her husband and children when they started urging her to quit in the early 1950s, waving them away when they showed her magazine articles with headlines like CANCER BY THE CARTON. She did make the concession of switching in 1955 from Chesterfield straights to L&M filters, which were advertised at the time as "just what the doctor ordered." But Cipollone kept on smoking even after developing...
...have operating earnings of $6.4 billion this year, up from $5.2 billion in 1986. The number of cigarettes smoked by Americans has steadily declined, from 640 billion in 1981 to 565 billion last year, but the companies have more than compensated by raising prices: the average cost of a pack today is $1.24, compared with 66 cents in 1981. At the same time, the producers have increased sales abroad, especially in Asia and Africa...
...billion. According to calculations by Marc Cohen, who follows the industry for the Sanford C. Bernstein investment firm, U.S. tobacco companies could lose 15,000 verdicts a year like Cipollone's and pay the total $6 billion in damages simply by raising the price of cigarettes 25 cents a pack -- even taking into account a 10% drop in business because of the price increase...
Today's tourists are discovering a Turkey that transcends popular stereotypes. In Istanbul they jam the Topkapi Palace to gaze at the 400-room harem of the sultanate and to view its incomparable treasury of emeralds, diamonds, gold and ivory. They pack the Blue Mosque and the other masterpieces of Mehmet Aga, Turkey's great 17th century architect. Bargain hunters fill the cavernous covered bazaar looking for rugs, leather goods and gold. To the south, near Izmir, tour guides jockey for position at the ruins of Ephesus, where the main attraction is the Temple of Artemis, one of the Seven...