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White concentrates first on the great lobbying power cigarette companies have held over Congress and in local politics. Citing a statistic that out of 451 congressional districts, tobacco is grown only in 51, White presents us with information regarding laws and national tobacco policies to show that the cigarette kings...
In the first rounds of yesterday's debate, the teams could choose to argue on Joseph Goebbels' comment, "Whenever I hear the word, `culture,' I reach for my revolver," and Stalin's "One death is a tragedy; one million deaths are a statistic."
Most Alarming Statistic. Tom Brokaw's assertion that 65 million American children live in poverty. There are 65 million children in all the U.S.; 13 million are considered poor.
Ironically, congressional trepidation about base closings may be misplaced. A 1977 study of 100 shutdowns found that most local economies were better off without the presence of the military. The Pentagon's Office of Economic Adjustment reported that barracks and bunkers had been transformed into industrial parks, colleges, vocational schools...
Complaints ranged from the mundane to the exotic. One crowd pleaser was Vladimir Kabaidze, 64, general director of a machine-tool plant in the city of Ivanovo. Earthy and outspoken, Kabaidze took pleasure in skewering the ministerial bureaucracy that oversees Soviet industrial enterprises. Kabaidze offered some feline advice: "If a...