Word: swore
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Ralph was a daredevil who left school without learning to read or write, recalls his sister Ada Weeding, 62. He was also a drinker, and "when he was drinking, he could blame his wife or kids when things went wrong--it was never his fault," she says. Although Ralph swore off alcohol years ago, Ada thinks he's held on to his old way of thinking, except that now he blames the government and the New World Order. By the early '80s, Ralph was railing against high mortgage rates and unfair foreclosures, and in 1982 he appeared on a 20/20...
...Farone and Jerome Rivers, that threaten to push the tobacco industry farther out on a legal limb. All three men directly contradict the testimony of former Philip Morris ceo William Campbell before Representative Henry Waxman's 1994 congressional subcommittee. At those hearings Campbell, along with six other tobacco ceos, swore that he did not believe nicotine was addictive, and that Philip Morris did nothing to manipulate or increase nicotine levels in its products...
Many tobacco executives swore otherwise when testifying before Representative Henry Waxman's health subcommittee in 1994, but consistency has never been central to the industry's legal defense--overwhelming force has. As RJ Reynolds lawyer J. Michael Jordan put it in a 1988 memorandum, "To paraphrase General Patton, the way we won those cases was not by spending all of Reynolds' money but by making that other son of a bitch spend all his." Liggett Group, for instance, spent an estimated $75 million fighting the Cipollone case in New Jersey; though the jury awarded the husband of Rose Cipollone...
...lawyers are less quick with a response, however, when asked about what Florida assistant attorney general Jim Peters refers to as "the big bad bear out there": the federal perjury probe launched after seven tobacco CEOs testifying at the Waxman hearings swore that nicotine was not addictive. Philip Morris lawyers point out that their former CEO, William Campbell, did not say tobacco is not addictive: he only said he doesn't believe it is addictive, a "personal viewpoint he has every right to hold," says York. Some tobacco experts speculate that the tobacco industry may seek a deal in which...
...their sense of isolation grew worse, Saddam's daughters set up a campaign of their own. "They kept crying and pressuring their husbands," says the Jordanian security official. Receiving assurances from their mother in Baghdad, the women entreated their husbands to appeal for forgiveness. The wives swore on the Koran, "If you are killed, we will commit suicide." As the demands continued, Hussein Kamel became irritable and even violent. He fought constantly with other members of the defection party and last month was reportedly hospitalized for exhaustion...