Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Weinberger ruled last week, despite the opposition of Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop, that cigarettes will not be removed from the list of items sold to military personnel at cut-rate prices. Tobacco products are sold at discounts of up to 35 percent at commissaries and military exchanges...
...argument can be expanded when the killer is a child, someone who is defined by the law as irresponsible, and who is presumably too immature to vote or to enter into a contract or to purchase alcohol and tobacco. Additionally, many of the criminals who have been executed recently have been mentally retarded--Roach, for instance, had an IQ of only 76. Certainly, a mentally impaired individual cannot make the sort of moral judgements assumed by the concept of capital punishment. The position is inconsistent and arbitrary, period. It also forgets that the young are the most likely...
Legally, there are two firms. Black, Manafort, Stone & Kelly, a lobbying operation, represents Bethlehem Steel, the Tobacco Institute, Herbalife, Angolan "Freedom Fighter" Jonas Savimbi and the governments of the Bahamas and the Philippines. Black, Manafort, Stone & Atwater, a political-consulting firm, has helped elect such powerful Republican politicians as Senator Phil Gramm of Texas and Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Jesse Helms...
Johnston discussed a variety of ways to reduce the national deficit before the 12 people in attendance at the freshman Union. She singled out tobacco and nuclear industry subsidies as "pork barrels" which should be purged from the national budget...
...back, stare up at the sky and just smile." That was Sputnik time, when America was racing to catch up to the Soviets. Later it would rely on the help of seven crew-cut white pilots, extraordinary role models for a rural Southern black youth who picked tobacco to earn pocket money. In 1984 McNair became the second black man in space (after Guion Bluford in 1983), flawlessly launching a $75 million communications satellite from Challenger's cargo bay and lightening the mood by wearing a black beret and dark glasses and holding a movie clapper board. His name badge...