Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...investigators began picking their way down a ramp leading to what had been the garage's second parking level, shining flashlights on the mangled remains of cars and trucks that had been blown to bits. "Hey, look at this," said an agent from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Joseph Hanlin, a bomb expert from ATF, picked up a thin, charred, twisted bit of metal about 18 in. long. "This is something that we need to take...
SMOKING? OR NONSMOKING? PEOPLE ARE OFFERED such a choice by restaurants and airlines. But now investors will be able to choose under a novel stock plan devised by tobacco and food giant RJR Nabisco. As part of a deal to raise $1.5 billion to reduce its $14 billion debt, RJR Nabisco will create two new classes of stock: RN-Reynolds, which will mainly represent the company's tobacco business, and RN-Nabisco, a proxy for the firm's food operations. RJR Nabisco is the nation's largest cookiemaker and the second biggest cigarette manufacturer...
Eventually, the deficit-cutting medicine is likely to be bitter enough for the most masochistic tastes. Besides the hefty tax increases already proposed, the President in effect has confirmed that he is likely to call for higher excise taxes on liquor and tobacco as part of his eventual health-care reform program -- and even those "sin taxes" would not come anywhere near offsetting the costs of making health-insurance coverage universal. On a happier, though still controversial, note, Clinton unveiled a program to invest $17 billion of federal money over the next five years in civilian high- tech projects. Much...
...other federal agencies to Code Red, their highest state of readiness. The FBI activated its Joint Terrorist Task Force, and the CIA turned up the heat at its Counterterrorist Center in Langley, Virginia, a conglomerate of psychiatrists, explosives experts and hostage negotiators. Meanwhile, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the agency responsible for investigating the loss and theft of explosives, mobilized its 13-member National Response Team held on 24-hour call in the New York area. They were joined by bureau chemists from headquarters in Rockville, Maryland...
...enough high explosives to manufacture a sizable car bomb. Could they have obtained them in the U.S.? Although high explosives are widely used in the construction industry, they are monitored. The FBI maintains close contacts with manufacturers and dealers, while sales are tightly regulated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Though the Pentagon possesses its own plastic explosive, a Semtex relative called C-4, a would-be terrorist would have to steal it from a military facility -- a theft that would probably be detected. Other explosives might be simpler to accumulate, however, like ammonium nitrate, an ordinary component...