Word: tobacco
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...other action, the Corporation and the advisory committee were said to disagree on what Harvard policy should be on investing in the Philip Morris Co., which had come under heavy criticism by the ACSR for its extensive production of tobacco related products...
More and more Caribbean nations are tearing up irreplaceable rain forests to plant such export crops as bananas, sugar cane, tobacco, coffee and cacao. On the sea, tankers, carrying oil from Venezuela and more distant shores, crisscross the Caribbean; as much as half of the U.S.'s imported oil comes through these crowded sea arteries, many of them leading through dangerous, narrow straits...
...wants or needs-whether it be the de-mothballing of a battleship or subsidies to tobacco growers-the fact remains that taxes do pay for schools and libraries, hospitals and highways, police and prisons, and research into outer space. "Taxes," said Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., "are what we pay for civilized society...
Such so-called 'scientific' research groups include the Calorie Control Council, a coalition of dietary product manufacturers who prevented the proposed ban on saccharin in 1977 with a massive ad campaign aimed a diet-drink fanatics, and the Council on Tobacco Research, a group to which five of the six principal cigarette manufacturers belong, which still denies the well-established causal lationship between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. These coalitions attempt toe refute self-incriminating data about their products under he guise of "unbiased" health councils. Countless other similar "scientific" cancer research centers are supported solely by industrial funds...
...companies, Charles D. Spencer & Associates, a Chicago-based research firm, found that 27% were offering special incentives for early retirement. Among the corporations that have started such programs in the past two years: Polaroid, Deere and Xerox. A recent addition to the list is R.J. Reynolds, the largest U.S. tobacco company. In January, Reynolds offered pension benefits and a bonus of a year's salary to workers in its headquarters town of Winston-Salem, N.C., who by next year will be 55 or older and will have worked at least ten years for the company. Reynolds is concerned that...