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AUSTIN, TEXAS: Texas became the latest state to file suit against the tobacco industry in order to reclaim Medicaid costs. The state is seeking $4 billion, the estimated total expense to Texas taxpayers for smoking related Medicaid claims since 1980. The suit, filed in a Texarkana federal court, also aims to curb tobacco advertisements that the state claims are targeted at children. The lawsuit is the first government action to claim the tobacco industry has violated federal mail and wire fraud statutes, as well as racketeering and conspiracy laws. Eight tobacco firms are named in the suit, including industry leaders...
...past 18 months," says Rose-Marie Bravo, president of Saks Fifth Avenue. "Consumers want you to know they have it [upscale style], but they don't want to shout." As an example of this quieter elegance, Bravo points to the sleek and somber lines of Jil Sander, where a suit averages about...
What the other cigarette companies do is of little interest to LeBow, a takeover artist who has set his sights on R.J.R. Nabisco. "He's in it to make money,'' says Richard Scruggs, one of whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand's lawyers, who is helping on the Mississippi Medicaid suit. "This is a very sophisticated business transaction by Bennett LeBow." If LeBow can force a merger between Liggett and R.J.R., then R.J.R. will participate in the settlement, moving out from under the shadow of incessant litigation, boosting its stock price and enabling LeBow to split the company's food and tobacco...
...minorities had cost the cities hundreds of millions of dollars in federal aid. Officials in Wisconsin, which stood to lose a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives to California if the census had been revised, were relieved by the ruling. Money may have been the motivation for the suit, but the big cities argued the undercount abridged their citizens' constitutional right to an equal vote. The Court ruled that the Bureau of the Census made an "extraordinary effort" to count fairly, and that the secretary of Commerce, who oversees the bureau, acted within his authority in accepting the figures...
...have had some last-minute qualms that Leno would be a big-chinned albatross, but his Tonight Show is now whipping Letterman soundly in the ratings. As for the rest of NBC's fortunes, Littlefield, 43, has confounded critics, who regarded him as something of an empty suit--a protege of NBC programming whiz Brandon Tartikoff who inherited Tartikoff's No. 1 schedule in 1990 and quickly let it slide to third place. Littlefield has not only kept his job for nearly six years--an eternity in his profession--but has masterminded NBC's surprising rebound to No. 1 this...