Word: productions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American Medical Association calls it a "drug delivery device." The R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. touts it as a "cleaner smoke." The product in dispute is Premier, RJR's so-called smokeless cigarette, which the A.M.A. contends should be federally regulated. The feud has been fanned by a recent issue of the Journal of the A.M.A., which portrays Premier as a product that fosters nicotine addiction...
...rebels' show of strength comes at a particularly difficult time for the government, which already faces staggering economic trouble. This year's coffee harvest will probably be the scantiest in 30 years, disastrous news for a country that counts on this single product for one-third of its income. An additional 50% of its income comes from U.S. aid, but belt tightening in Washington could erode the $537 million currently allocated to El Salvador...
...newly formed Women's Alliance--and the Minority Students Alliance (MSA) from which women activists say they have taken their cue--will have its hands full in the next month responding to the forthcoming Verba Report on affirmative action in the faculty. The product of a high-level faculty committee's deliberations over the past semester, the report is expected to be released sometime in the next few weeks...
...icon of the old capitalism was the backyard inventor (as nostalgically recalled in the movie "Tucker"), the undoubted emblem of the new capitalism is the silk-draped Wall Street arbitrageur. The latter schemes to make money from money, rather than making money from a product that would potentially benefit...
...delivered a stinging critique of her husband at the Democratic National Convention, as "that woman." As for Ted Kennedy's famous "Where was George?" line, Barbara can only say, "He shouldn't even say George Bush's name." Though she has spent much of her life in Texas, this product of tony Rye, N.Y., can still summon a patrician bearing to cut the uppity down to size. The next President says she is "more direct" than he is. Says campaign manager and Republican Party Chairman Lee Atwater: "She can spot a phony a mile away." Her children have a nickname...