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...emphysema and lung cancer. It guaranteed sophistication, sex appeal and even longevity. Although cigarettes are not as appealing to the American public as they once were, cigarette taxes certainly are. All 50 states have passed taxes on cigarettes. Despite these taxes, 48 million Americans—many of them poor??still smoke today, and politicians are eager to help them light...
This increase in giving came during a year when stock markets fell across the board—the New York Stock Exchange dropped 3.4 percent and the Standard and Poor??s Composite Index declined even more sharply, falling 15.9 percent...
...said he has issued a set of values—advocating respect for international law, economic aid and concern for human rights and the poor??which he said should guide the Bush administration in preparing its response...
CareGroup’s financial difficulties were further confirmed when Standard & Poor??s, the bond rating firm, designated CareGroup’s issues as “below investment grade.” In a press statement at the end of August, interim CEO Robert Melzer said that the rating won’t have a large impact on the immediate future of the group and that the downgrade was not unexpected. Melzer said that there were no plans to borrow more money, and that the bonds were insured so that there is little risk to current bond...
...effort and our faith in our city. If the 500,000 people I watched last week, celebrating, sipping lemonade and singing along with The Temptations in Detroit’s Hart Plaza—black and white, young and old, urban and suburban, Jewish and Christian, rich and poor??are any indication, the city is on its way to greatness once again...