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At RJR Nabisco, the benefits of LBOs were hardly lost on Johnson. Born in Winnipeg, Man., he had parlayed a keen eye for a deal and the nerves of a gunslinger into the top job at three major corporations. He was president of Standard Brands, the producer of Planters nuts...
Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. Reagan's man, William Bradford Reynolds, outraged minorities by breaking the Justice Department's long- standing alliance with civil rights organizations. The new appointee could help the G.O.P. lure nonwhite voters by reversing Reynolds' opposition to affirmative-action quotas. One key decision: whether the...
In a sense, then, Larry White, who is not a doctor, is not calling on us to quit smoking for health reasons. He is calling for a boycott of the tobacco industry on moral grounds. Charging the officials of such companies as R J Reynolds and Phillip Morris as being...
Most damning of all, White analyzes the diversification policies that allow cigarette companies to increase their profits and their influence over smoking policies. He writes that as companies like Reynolds have merged with Nabisco, they have dictated national policies, becoming like spiders with tentacles of influence in interests as diverse...
The tobacco industry has similar worries: that either party might resort to raising the national cigarette tax, which has already gone up from 8 cents a pack to 16 cents in the past five years. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco channeled $100,000 to the Republican Party, but that was offset when...