Word: tobacco
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...will be doing ourselves a great disservice if we choose our president simply based on what he preaches according to where he is standing and in relation to the timing of the election. When Bob Dole defends the tobacco industry while in tobacco country, but plays a different tune when addressing the rest of the country, the voters must take note of the disparity. When President Clinton makes campaign promises and compassionately talks about issues without making actual substantial efforts to adopt and implement his promises, we must take notice and call his bluff. If we entrust the executive branch...
Sometimes Washington is actually as unseemly as people imagine. Take the case of John Boehner. A year ago, the Ohio Congressman handed thousands of dollars of tobacco-industry campaign checks to half a dozen Republican colleagues right on the House floor. And if that weren't bad enough, Democratic leaders cut short the very press conference they had called to criticize him. Why? Reporters, knowing that Democrats had done the same, were turning their questions on them...
...company; ING, a huge Dutch bank; and other members of a consortium that lent some $300 million to the Castro government in 1995. The loan collateral: sugar grown or milled on properties that allegedly belonged to Cubans who are now American citizens. A similar target: BAT, the giant British tobacco firm...
...major enemies of children today are missing fathers, illegal drugs, tobacco and alcohol abuse, the collapse of authority and a popular culture that inspires antisocial and destructive behavior in children. The war we must wage for our children requires more than simply pouring money into programs like Head Start. There is a component of morals and values to it. The sooner we can reach a consensus on what those morals and values are, the quicker we will begin saving our children. STEFFEN W. SCHMIDT, Professor Department of Political Science Iowa State University Ames, Iowa...
When he first saw the smoldering ruins of his Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church in Fruitvale, Tennessee, on Jan. 13, 1995, the Rev. Sherron Eugene Brown could not imagine anything worse. Then the agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms went to work on him. "They took me and the church treasurer to the federal building, put us in two separate rooms and asked us all kinds of questions about our insurance policies, about whether we were behind in paying off our mortgage or if any members of the congregation were angry," Brown remembers. "They were acting...