Word: snuffs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Americans kicking the habit? Health risks and social pressures are important turnoffs, say researchers at the Centers for Disease Control. Forty- four states and the District of Columbia now restrict smoking in public places, and many non-smokers are no longer shy about telling friends and co- workers to snuff it. But the biggest factor may be sticker shock. A pack of < cigarettes went for 23 cents in 1955; the average price last year...
...hires from the area and put them through 160 hours of training. "After six months on the job," he says, "seeing an inmate who messes up, my officers think they have failed." Direct supervision is a giant step for Texas, where sheriffs as a rule act tough and dip snuff. The touchy-feely character of direct supervision may rub them the wrong way. But what is forcing them to take Tarrant County seriously is its cost-efficiency and the mounting evidence that inmates are better managed. With overcrowding the most pressing problem in Texas jails, followed by a shortage...
...Cross (Warner Books; 366 pages; $22.95), written by Giancana's brother Chuck and godson Sam, says that is exactly what happened. Chuck Giancana played the role of underworld Candide, charting his brother's rise as the most powerful Mob boss west of the Mississippi and taking note of his snuff work for the CIA. "It's beautiful," says Sam. "The Outfit even has the same enemies as the government...
...Paul said he felt out of place, like a little fish in a big pond. He was afraid he was not up to snuff," says Amy Stromsten, a social worker who advised him between...
...that they had been prompted by porn films or magazines. Fighting back tears, Pat Haas, of Brookline, Mass., said she had been beaten by her boyfriend, who forced her to act out scenes from pornography. "He did what was in the movies," says Haas. "If he had seen a snuff film, I wouldn't be here." Under the proposed antipornography civil rights bill, victims like Haas could sue the pornographers for being indirectly responsible for the crime...