Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Association, it is unlikely the law will be repealed. "Posterity may find that this ban was well ahead of its time," says Patrick Reynolds, an antismoking activist and Beverly Hills resident who saw his father die of emphysema. He is the grandson of R.J. Reynolds, founder of the famed tobacco company...
...minor-league catcher, coach and manager, Trebelhorn somehow withstood a thousand bus rides from Boise to Walla Walla without becoming very tobacco splattered. He is a substitute math teacher in the off-season and is as reasonable as he is unrecognizable. When Rookie Catcher B.J. Surhoff was called out for straying from the base path, Trebelhorn raced to the umpire, saying, "Look, you know the rule and I know the rule. But the players don't know the rule and the fans don't know the rule. So we have to stand here and argue awhile, O.K.?" "Treb" came...
...Hidden Politics of the Tobacco Industry and the Mass Media--Jean Kilbourne and Alan Blum. Starr Auditorium, Belfer Center, JFK School of Government...
Even so, the charges may have already shattered the careers of the two cosmopolitan go-getters. Merrill Lynch promptly fired Vaskevitch, citing his failure to give the company an explanation of the SEC's charges. The son of a wealthy Israeli tobacco trader, Vaskevitch had already risen to head a merger operation for a British investment house by age 30, when he joined Merrill Lynch in 1981. He quickly became Merrill's top international mergermaker and lived accordingly in a $2.4 million London home filled with antique furniture...
...sense of ethical responsibility, good business and good ethics rarely work in harmony; the conflict almost always remains. Did Union Carbide readily pay out millions to the families of the Bhopal disaster, despite its clear responsibility for what happened? Does the certain knowledge that cigarette smoking is unhealthy prevent tobacco companies from putting forth all sorts of spurious arguments to the contrary...