Word: settlements
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Initiative: Tobacco Taxes/Smoking Bans/Tobacco Settlement Revenues...
...Opponents Say: Taxing cigarettes will only cause an increase in smuggling and the cigarettes will find their way into the hands of children; a smoking ban law could hurt businesses that smokers frequent and the choice to smoke cannot be legislated; there are several other uses for the settlement monies other than just health care and education programs...
...Judge Sim Lake originally ordered a $5 million fine to be paid to the U.S. Government, but then changed his mind. "No fine - it will all go to the victims," he said. Seattle attorney Lynn Sarko, who represents employees in Enron retirement fund lawsuits, said in court that the settlement was a fair resolution. "It will provide the victims a large amount of money much sooner," Sarko said...
...botanical passions have often brought her in close proximity to Aboriginal Australia. This is cleverly suggested in "Prism" by placing her cabinet of glass-beaded native flora and fauna, Understorey, 1999-2004, in the anteroom to a gallery of work by mainly women artists from the Central Australian settlement of Utopia, whose riotous desert-flower colorfields appear to wink at Hall's work...
...make sense to sell some stocks or real estate--if you must in order to meet current expenses--and keep paying on the life policy. But if you're inclined to let your life insurance run out or surrender it for its cash value, consider a life settlement first. Like finding something of value amid the junk in your attic, you'll be happy you didn't just toss...