Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...expert panel's findings and finally concluded that exposure to secondhand smoke exacerbates bronchitis, pneumonia and other ailments in children and kills 3,000 adults through lung cancer each year. The report, which had seemingly run afoul of political considerations within the agency, was immediately denounced by the tobacco industry...
News about the EPA report also brought to light the fact that a separate division of the government agency, which studies indoor pollutants, had dropped its funding of research into tobacco smoke. Critics alleged that the decision, which was made about the same time that the passive-smoking panel reached its conclusions, was a result of lobbying by the tobacco industry. Although the government denies the charge, Congress has launched an investigation...
Then there is the problem of longevity. With millions of seniors eating right, exercising and forgoing tobacco and alcohol, lots of potential beneficiaries are starting to, well, wonder. "There is the concern that, 'Yes, I'll inherit something, but I may be 70 when I get it,' " says Katherine Triolo, a financial planner in Appleton, Wisconsin. Heirs beware: the typical 65-year-old man can expect to live another 15 years, while women can bank on an additional 19. Americans 100 and over constitute the fastest- growing segment of the population. Despite rising life expectancies, older Americans are still retiring...
...other behemoths including Sears and American Express, is more than a matter of size and the inevitable cycles of change. Many giants manage to avoid hardening of the arteries. Du Pont, which is nearly 200 years old, remains an industry leader in synthetic materials. Philip Morris started as a tobacco shop in 1847 but is now a $55 billion-a- year company that sells everything from beer to breakfast cereal. General Electric managed to grow from light bulbs to jet engines, and Motorola from car radios to microchips...
...Jackson, who ran in 1828 as a man of the common people, the Clintons will throw a reception for the public the day after they move into the White House. Taxpayers can only hope the Clintons have better luck than Old Hickory. His guests broke the furniture and spat tobacco juice in the corners...