Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Angry Critics. Trudeau's budget, which called for higher levies on liquor and tobacco while abolishing taxes on other consumer goods, may have been the immediate catalyst for the end of his affair with the New Democrats and his subsequent defeat. But other developments in recent months helped make the Prime Minister's downfall seem predictable. One notable factor has been a strong political revival of the Conservative Party. A Gallup poll last month showed the Tories' popularity among voters to be up by 3% since February, while the Liberals' had dropped...
Woody Stephens started amassing his racing wisdom when he was 13. The son of a tobacco farmer in the hamlet of Midway, Ky., Stephens broke his first yearling in 1927, and a year later dropped out of high school to sign a five-year contract as an apprentice jockey. When he grew too big to ride, Stephens turned to training, scoring his first victory in 1940. His total involvement with all facets of racing includes even horse matchmaking-it was Stephens' idea to mate Bold Bidder and Queen Sucree in 1970. The product was named Cannonade. To this...
...shallower bourbon, but the taste is as smooth. This film is all tanned bodies against blue workshirts against a deep Southern green--everything looks great, and the redneck myth is comforting: the reflecting sunglass man did as much for the stereotype of southern law enforcement as Red Man chewing tobacco. Paul Newman sings "Plastic Jesus...
...case against Boyle, Sprague questioned more than 50 witnesses, including tobacco-chewing Kentucky pensioners who were entrusted with $500 checks for union services never performed, which they then returned to the union; they knew only that the money was part of an elaborate kickback scheme, not that it would be used for the murders. Sprague also placed on the stand FBI agents who had investigated the Dec. 31, 1969 killings. Each witness helped buttress Sprague's contention...
...rest is familiar history. Engels used his capitalist lucre to support the firm of Marx & Engels, tireless designers of revolutions, tailors of socialist theory, collaborators on scholarly books and pamphlets, including a long-term bestseller called The Communist Manifesto. The sullen, tobacco-stained genius Karl Marx and the buoyant, optimistic and modest Engels combined to make one of the most influential partnerships of all time. Marx supplied the creative thought, and Engels produced the human evidence, provided the money, and cleaned up Marx's turgid prose for the world to read. Although he was hesitant to admit it, Engels...