Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Baseball cards have been young fans' link to the major leagues since the turn of the century, when they first appeared in cigarette, grocery, and tobacco packages. Even the most novice of collectors knows why Honus Wagner's 1909 card is so valuable--Wagner objected to smoking and chewing and forced the company marketing his likeness to round up and destroy his cards, with only nine surviving...
...attorney. It may be said that freedom of inquiry, opinion, speech and dissemination of thought does not exist. There are taboo questions which cannot be discussed such as all matters concerning the President's family, the dictatorship the extra-budgetary revenues of the Regie du Tabac [state-controlled tobacco industry] etc. There is recourse to procedures such as warnings and admonitions of increasing severity to journalists, issued by the Ministry of the Interior, there is also prior censor ship, closing of newspapers, threats, assaults and incarcerations...
King has not yet taken a stand on the bill and an aide said this week that he may have problems with the portion that would increase taxes. But despite the governor's reservations and opposition from the tobacco industry, the measure has a good chance of passing. The Senate passed the bill with case yesterday and the House chairmen of the three key committees taxation, education and ways and means--have all strongly endorsed the legislation. They appeared at a press conference two weeks ago with several university presidents, including President Bok. Bok said at the time that...
Prowling a deep Atlantic Ocean trench, Captain Robin White tamps some stray wisps of tobacco into his squat pipe, looking more like a professor than the skipper of an attack submarine. He calculates that he and his men are about as far distant in the presidential command network as one could get. But he holds the lethal stings, and his crew are essential players in the military power game. Captain White knows that...
Women and minority workers were the losers in the first case. At issue was a job-promotion plan at two American Tobacco Co. plants in Richmond. In effect, the scheme blocked blacks from many of the most desirable factory positions because whites had nearly always held the jobs that led to those spots. Black workers sued both the company and the union that negotiated the plan, charging that the plan's discriminatory impact violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But by a 5-to-4 margin, the Supreme Court ruled that even if a seniority system...