Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...match, now in its fifth day, has unfolded on an elegant board in the display window of Leavitt and Peirce, a Mass. Ave. tobacco store, without the physical presence of either combatant. Leavitt and Peirce sponsored the event as a publicity stunt and receives a daily move by telephone from Yale freshman Michael J. Wilder and Harvard graduate student Duane Champagne...
...also agrees to some so-called revenue enhancements, and he has indicated that he might. In a year-end interview with reporters that was released last week, Reagan repeated his general opposition to tax boosts, but hinted that he could make an exception for higher excise taxes on alcohol, tobacco and gasoline...
...tobacco industry, it is said, has been directly or indirectly repsonsible for contributing to air pollution, hiking insurance rates, crowding hospitals, and draining taxpayers' money for subsidies. It also played a significnt role in Marianne Asaro's choice of a place to study: a long, fluorescent-lit room in the basement of Cabot Library. She has staked out a corner of the room for herself, and covered it with her belongings: notes for a Biochem 10 paper, a pile of textbooks, and a little tin ashtray with six cigarette butts. "Of all the places where you can study...
...achieve this goal. In keeping with their cautious attitude on defense issues, 46% say they would reduce military spending, if necessary, to balance the budget; 38% oppose any reduction in defense appropriations. Moreover, significant majorities approve of trying to sop up the red ink by raising taxes on tobacco (74%) and businesses and corporations (59%). At the same time, Yankelovich found that the public is opposed to raising taxes on oil and gasoline (57%) and personal income (73%). The voters also reject overwhelmingly spending cuts on consumer protection (53%), programs for dependent children (56%), entitlement programs like Social Security...
...board's Democrats also urged the Administration to adopt some additional revenue-raising measures. Pechman argued, for example, that doubling the federal excise tax on alcohol, gasoline and tobacco would bring in another $13 billion, and that enacting a windfall tax on decontrolled natural gas could result in anywhere from $10 billion to $20 billion more Government revenue...