Word: tobacco
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...lime soft drink on the planet. It sells thousands of homes a year in Mission Viejo, Calif..and the suburbs of Denver. But most of all. Philip Morris sells cigarettes--Marlboro, Merit, Virginia Slims. Benson and Hedges. Parliament, Alpine, Saratoga 120s and others. Machines in the Richmond facility put tobacco into paper tubes, hand the cigarettes, cut them, insert filters, box them, put the boxes into the cartons and the cartons into cases and the cases into trucks. How many? These figures are from one factory- 600 million cigarettes a day, 140 billion cigarettes a year. Overall, Philip Morris churns...
Demonstrating the importance of registering handgun sales, the Treasury Department's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms within minutes discovered where Hinckley had purchased the weapon: at Rocky's Pawn Shop in Dallas. If Hinckley had somehow eluded capture, tracing this sale would have given the FBI the gunman's identity...
...most surprised miner of all was the hulking, tobacco-chomping Church, 44, who became president of the 91-year-old union in 1979. Determined to negotiate a contract that would cement his support within the U.M.W., Church emerged from two months of wage and benefit talks in possession of a package that seemed overflowing with concessions to the miners. Included in the deal: a 36% pay and benefits increase over three years, boosts in pension payments for retired miners and surviving spouses, and a ban on mandatory Sunday work, which mineowners had been demanding but workers had vehemently opposed...
...Anglican bishop, Hollis attended Oxford but never earned a degree. Instead, he went to work for the British American Tobacco Company in Shanghai and then joined M15 in 1939. There he steadfastly worked his way up: acting head of Section F, which dealt with Soviet and other Communist operations in Britain and the colonies, then deputy director and, finally, D.G. in 1956. throughout, his loyalty seemed beyond question. "I find the whole idea that he would betray his country just incredible," said Hollis' daughter-in-law Margaret. "He was so English. He was a keen cricket watcher and golfer...
...military muscle Arab-Israeli conflict Deng Xiaoping a reshuffle of command oaths and indoctrinations radical ideology 13 percent cut important legitimacy Don't exaggerate anti-Vietnam united front not about to leave neutralized grand gesture capital spending on the skids US recession Germany's slump Deutsche Bank fight inflation tobacco and alcoholic beverages oil revenues bank profits pep up hoteliers pomp and pegeantry Wedgwood Royal Doulton Ulster Weaving Company Lloyds of London petroleum Fao crossfire sabotaged oil revenue transit fees paper packaging newsprint 1.5 billion dollars capital spending about 1 per cent 400 million dollars less expanding most oil firms...