Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shot on location in Spain by Italian Director Francesco Rosi and adapted by Rosi and Tonino Guerra, the film boasts some striking images: cigarette girls hike their skirts while suggestively rolling tobacco on their thighs, and smugglers carouse in taverns of dubious salubrity...
Reynolds will focus on its consumer products, which in addition to cigarettes include Canada Dry soft drinks and Del Monte foods. For the slimmed-down company, tobacco will account for an estimated 76% of earnings, up from...
...budget of $2 million to projected losses this year of about $50,000 on expenditures of about $3.5 million. The major innovations: nearly doubling the subscription price in three years, from $24 to $45, with almost no loss in renewal rate; more aggressive pursuit of national advertising for liquor, tobacco, automobiles and other consumer products; upgraded paper and a color cover to be more attractive on the newsstand. Next year Peretz projects achieving the all but unthinkable for an opinion magazine: a small profit...
...instead the elegant male, well dressed and sophisticated, but with a boyish, ingratiating smile, so dazzlingly toothy that, for safety's sake, it almost has to be viewed through smoked glass, like a solar eclipse. To keep the tan that has given his skin the color of a tobacco leaf, he has artfully arranged his schedule so that he is almost always in that half of the globe that is celebrating summer. When his 33-city U.S. tour ends Sept. 29, about the time of the first frost up north, he will race back to his $5 million home...
...case of so-called sin taxes. Taxes on distilled liquor will rise by 340 on an 86-proof fifth, but cigarette taxes will be cut in half, to 80 a pack, as previously scheduled. House tax writers had sought a smaller reduction, but they lost out to a tobacco lobby that was strongly seconded by North Carolina Republican Jesse Helms, who is running for re-election to the Senate. Securities firms won a big break for investors. For the next two years they can sell stock, real estate or other assets that they have held for six months...