Word: taker
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...scientists. But a new poll, published in the American Journal of Public Health, shows that 93% of the tobacco-funded scientists surveyed "strongly believe" that most lung-cancer deaths are caused by smoking. The industry's response is that it sponsors studies without regard to results. But the survey taker, K. Michael Cummings of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, demurs: "Scientists receiving support from the council should ask themselves whether the value of their research outweighs its contribution to an industry that kills 400,000 Americans a year...
Among the scariest of Saddam's options would be to exploit the tens of thousands of foreign nationals who are stranded in Iraq and Kuwait. Both countries are a hostage taker's dream bazaar. Among the expatriates in Kuwait are 3,000 Americans, 3,000 Britons and 3,000 Turks. In Iraq there are an additional 500 Americans, 2,000 Britons, 8,000 Soviets and 3,000 Turks. Last week Iraq sealed its borders and Kuwait's. Later, 11 Americans, all of them Baghdad embassy staff and their dependents, except for 10-year-old Penelope Nabokov, were allowed to depart...
...duets of shop talk, the tycoon's equivalent of ardor ("I am a patient man"). But this woman knew what she wanted: "I am not interested in profit improvement, acquisitions or expansion. A place looking for that won't benefit from what I bring. I am a risk taker, and it's a luxury not to have shareholders and Wall Street pressure...
David N. Greenwald '90 was a ticket-taker at the Lowell formal...
Others, though, in true New York City style, accused the accuser. "Why are you so uptight?" they would angrily ask. Since when, I wondered, is a ticket-taker's uptightness grounds for free admission to a formal dance...