Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unusual dress, Imelda said later, was meant to show that she is a "Philippine patriot." It was also an implicit suggestion that she and her husband, longtime friends of the U.S., are now being persecuted by the government that agreed to give them asylum. The message was underscored by tobacco heiress Doris Duke, who stepped forward to post Mrs. Marcos' $5 million bail after Imelda's lawyers contended that the Marcoses had been living on "borrowed funds" since the Reagan Administration persuaded them to leave the Philippines. Why, Duke asked, "should America spend millions and millions of dollars prosecuting...
Like many another Filipino politician who was born poor, Marcos regarded bribes and corrupt profits as perks of office; he skimmed millions, for example, from the country's cigarette-tobacco monopoly. But Seagrave estimates that the ex-dictator's fortune may be as much as $100 billion. Whence came that awesome wealth? Seagrave's answer is that Marcos had located and dug up part of a vast horde of stolen bullion known as "Yamashita's Gold...
...weakening the phrasing of the warning labels on cigarette packs, waging over the past decades a winning battle to eliminate the words "death" and "addiction" from package covers. Later White says that the cigarette companies often work for legislation that benefits their interests while taking advantage of the numerous tobacco farmers in the South...
...lawyer, the author traveled around the country and did extensive research on the subject of anti-tobacco company legislation. He argues that the companies are guilty on two counts: they have so much money that they can extend the litigation process indefinitely, and they are uncooperative in providing information pertinent to the cases...
White focuses on the 1986 case of Marsee vs. United States Tobacco Company, to show how a company's evasive policies can work to its advantage. Arguing that the head of U.S. Tobacco refused to answer questions pertaining to the charges that Sean Marsee died from oral cancer as a direct result of chewing tobacco daily for seven years, White presents convincing excerpts from the case testimony...