Word: tobacco
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LIFE IS A CABARET, death a blast, and apocalypse in Burgess' twenty-sixth novel or "entertainment," as he labels it. Not only is this "very deep" book a "bargain," it will "slip down as easily as a dozen oysters well-sharpened with lemon juice and tobacco," as the author declares in the jacket blurb. The book is really three stories in one. All concern the end of human history adapted for the modern TV viewer. At times The End of the World News is all that its author promises: at times it is merely quirky. But whatever its flaws, this...
...that were not enough, a late freeze in the Deep South left fruit and vegetable crops devastated. Heavy rains had already delayed the planting of corn, watermelon and tobacco in Georgia, and rice, wheat and cotton in Louisiana. The apple and peach farmers in the northern part of Georgia found most of their potential harvests frozen on the trees...
...National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), asserted that we have--"not a drug problem--we're dealing with a problem based upon ignorance, denial, hypocrisy, and special-interest greed." He recommended comprehensive drug law reform, including the "repeal of all exemptions from product liability laws for alcohol and tobacco," and having an assigned risk for the liabilities they cause. He also suggested a repeal of all excise taxes dealing with drugs and alcohol, saying "Sin taxes are the erasure of the separation between church and state...They create an intrinsic conflict of interest." If a taxation policy were...
...origins of the confrontation lay in an economic condition that has steadily worsened. Battered by 9.2% inflation, 8.9% unemployment and a trade deficit that reached a record $14 billion in 1982, the government decreed a tough belt-tightening package that included higher prices for tobacco and alcohol, and an obligatory taxpayer loan to the government (amounting to 10% of taxes paid in 1982). That was bad enough, but not nearly as controversial as the new restrictions on foreign travel, designed to reduce the outflow of currency...
Calkins said the tobacco issue is too complicated for any immediate decisions on the ACSR's informal recommendation that Harvard divest its $20 million worth of stock in the company, adding the Corporation would take the issue up this summer