Word: suit
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...money, divvied out in annual payments starting at $10 billion and rising eventually to $15 billion, in perpetuity, will be used to compensate states for health-care costs related to treating smokers, pay individuals who successfully press suit, finance health research and promote education programs aimed at deterring youths from taking up the evil weed. To that end, Joe Camel will soon become a has-been and the Marlboro Man will be put out to pasture, because the industry also agreed to sweeping reforms that proscribe the use of human or cartoon forms in advertising. Billboards, stadium signs, T-shirt...
Most of Liang's colleagues at the factory are too frightened or too indolent to follow suit. Shenyang is a warning to the government that it cannot easily trade in communism for completely laissez-faire capitalism. There is no national welfare system for workers like Liang. If they leave their work units, they lose their housing, health benefits, education subsidies, pension rights...
...some, nobody will ever fill Emma Peel's leather bodysuit like Dame Diana Rigg. Still, UMA THURMAN is doing a creditable job. The Suit--a staple of the '60s British show The Avengers--is back again now that the show is being made into a feature film (a movie of a TV show! Why didn't anyone think of this before?!), with Thurman, RALPH FIENNES and Sean Connery. As for the old Avengers, they're perfectly happy. "Actors complain that their TV shows have not been good for them, but The Avengers has been great to me," says Patrick Macnee...
Former University security guard Viatcheslav "Steve" Abramian's discrimination suit against the University went to the jury at noon yesterday after almost three weeks of trial. A verdict is expected today...
...Senate in 1994; on charges of soliciting murder; in Gaithersburg, Md. In this stranger-than-Fargo tale, Aron allegedly hired a hit man (actually an undercover cop) to do away with her husband of more than 30 years, Barry, and a lawyer who testified against her in a defamation suit she filed...