Word: suits
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Tobacco is not a potted plant--it doesn't take attacks quietly. No sooner were the FDA regulations previewed last summer than the industry filed suit in a North Carolina federal court to stop them, arguing that the agency has no authority to oversee cigarettes...
...little publicity can be a dangerous thing. After reading (in TIME) of a new album from the Heads, three members of the Talking Heads, the fourth and most famous member, DAVID BYRNE, filed suit to stop the band from using the name. "Critics and the public used to call us the Heads," says Byrne. "And like it or not, the band was identified with my voice and my style. People will get confused." While band member Chris Frantz says he's surprised by Byrne's action, Byrne says it's the culmination of a feud that began when the band...
...quite sure where Yeltsin was, if he was actually running Russia or even, as some had reported, was near death, the Russian President put the rumors temporarily to rest Thursday in a television appearance and reclaimed control over the government. "Dressed in a well-tailored blue suit, Yeltsin looked well-groomed, and sun-tanned," reports TIME's Yuri Zarakhovich. "His face seemed to have lost the puffiness, so remarkable at the inauguration ceremony earlier this month, which had been his last public appearance before today. Though he spoke slowly and not without an effort, he did not seem to have...
...admit that they don't feel close; they are at times aware of being pushed away. If you bear Dole's scars, says a Republican Senator who has watched him for 25 years, "you don't let anybody know. You carry a pen. You always wear the dark blue suit and white shirt. You do all these things that say, 'I'm normal. I'm the same as everyone else.' The effect of that hurt is it says, 'Don't get close to me. I have come back from the dead.' You keep adding and adding to that armor over...
AWARDED. To GRADY CARTER, 66, ex-smoker and survivor of lung cancer; a landmark $750,000 in a liability suit against Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co.; in Jacksonville, Florida. Said Carter, a smoker for 44 years: "Somebody needed to take these people...