Word: palling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although they were not surprised by any of the information or conclusions of the report, the professors interviewed said it could cast a pall over the remainder of the President's term...
...Monday, but in a week of wild slides and surges finally closed with a gain of .1%. In London the Financial Times index tumbled 6% on the opening day of trading but struggled back and ended the week with a loss of 2%. The continued decline cast a pall over the Conservative government's latest sell-off of state-owned enterprises. Mexico's market, though small by comparison, fell drastically, as investors watched fearfully for signs of a recession in the U.S., the biggest purchaser of Mexico's vital exports...
...Liggett & Myers, based in Durham, N.C., in a $3 million lawsuit filed by the heirs of a lung cancer victim. Just four days earlier in Atlanta, another appeals court had made a similar ruling in favor of American Brands of Old Greenwich, Conn., the maker of, among other things, Pall Mall cigarettes...
...part, American Brands (1986 net sales: $8.5 billion) was sued on grounds similar to those in the Palmer case by Verna Stephen, a Pensacola, Fla., resident. Her husband Andrew died in 1984 of pulmonary heart disease and cancer at age 64, after smoking Pall Malls for 54 years. Before the case could get under way, a U.S. district judge ruled on a pretrial motion that American Brands could argue that it is not liable under state consumer laws. On appeal, the Atlanta court upheld that ruling...
Dame comes up at your elbow. Enough makeup to make Tammy Faye look like a Breck girl. Says in a voice like a mule eating briars, "Vodka and orange this time -- I'm trying to save my liver." Fires up a Pall Mall. Says, "Who am I kidding? Forget the orange...