Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since the company was formed agrees that the firm was very risk averse during its early years, but with good reason. "When we first started out in 1973, we had no capital no net worth no funds to speak of. We were sort of held together by wax and tobacco juice," Fox says...
...only a fraction favored cutting social spending. The majority said that they would prefer to see a decrease in military outlays. In addition, they rejected an increase in personal income taxes as a means of reducing the shortfall. By far the most popular revenue-raising measure was a higher tobacco...
...another bizarre Warner decision. Morgan was an Easterner in a Californian's game, a traditionalist in a rootless industry, a believer in long-term growth in a market hooked on quick profit and instant gratification, a technological skeptic among scientific true believers. Morgan had run the Philip Morris tobacco-marketing division, whose products included such fast-rising brands as Virginia Slims and Merit, with an almost ostentatious lack of computers. He preferred writing meticulous longhand notes on legal pads to punching numbers into a machine...
...wrote in regard to the antismoking referendum, "Enforcement will be annoying and probably impossible." A majority of San Franciscans obviously disagree. They voted for the law. Furthermore, your article states that Proposition P "narrowly passed." But you fail to mention that the tobacco industry spent $1.5 million, or $20 per vote, trying to defeat the legislation. Considering the effect of such lobbying, the bill could hardly pass with a landslide victory...
...there is no excuse for butchering classic lines like. "Every man over 21 is another woman's cast off clothing." Moreover, if Weishan wanted to give the show the least bit of credibility, he might have atleast seen to it that teacups were filled with liquid and pipes with tobacco...