Word: tobacco
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...mother ship in yachts and fishing boats to pick up the cargo and then shuttle back to the mainland, docking anywhere along some 3,000 miles of South Florida coastline; on shorter hauls, they roar out in souped-up racing speedboats, called "cigarette" boats after the tobacco-bootlegging vessels of the 1930s. Costing as much as $250,000 and able to reach speeds of up to 70 m.p.h., many of the cigarette boats are outfitted with such sophisticated equipment as radar scanners and infra-red night-vision scopes. Cocaine, however, is usually flown into the U.S. by airplane. Customs officials...
...City's main distinction is that it merges medicine and prayer, symbolized by a 60-ft. bronze sculpture of joined hands at the facility's entrance. All doctors and nurses are required to take oaths to "exemplify Christlike character" and abstain from alcohol, tobacco and illegal drugs. While they minister to the flesh, specially trained "prayer partners" tend to the mind and spirit. Says Roberts: "We seek to saturate patient treatment in the atmosphere of the power of prayer, both medicine and prayer becoming a single and continuous...
Administration supply-siders and monetarists are particularly incensed at Stockman's efforts to push through a package of indirect taxes on such items as tobacco, alcohol and gasoline. Lawrence Kudlow, the chief economist at OMB, has given such tax increases the woolly euphemism of "revenue enhancers." Supply-siders say that increasing taxes would repeat the mistake made in 1979 by Britain's Margaret Thatcher, when she tried to reduce a revenue shortfall brought on by sharp income tax cuts by raising the value-added taxes on consumer goods. Many economists now believe that the Thatcher taxes seriously aggravated...
House Democratic leaders, clearly delighted by the unraveling of the Administration's deal with the Southern conservatives, went along with the elimination of sugar and peanut protection. But then came a vote on the tobacco allotment program, which allows only certain landowners to grow the crop. North Carolina Democrats, who had not cut any deals with President Reagan on the economic package, persuaded their party to stick with them. Representative Charles Rose argued that he and his fellow Democrats would be politically crushed at home by the state's powerful Republican Senator Jesse Helms if they let down...
...somewhat similar to the one that people in underdeveloped countries follow of necessity. Pritikin, 66, founder of the Pritikin Longevity Center in Santa Monica, Calif, is a self-taught nutritionist. He forbids all fats, salt and sugar, oils, most processed foods and dairy products, and discourages the use of tobacco, caffeine, sugar and salt substitutes and even vitamins. Devotees eat mainly fresh fruits, vegetables and whole-grain breads, hoping Pritikin is correct when he claims that the diet curbs heart disease, diabetes and hypertension. Doctors say more testing is needed to substantiate such claims. They also say the Pritikin Diet...