Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Corporation took ethical issues into consideration when it decided to divest from tobacco companies. We believe that investing in South Africa is at least as reprehensible as producing cigarettes...
...medicine in their milk are other goals. Observes Arnold Foudin, a biotechnology specialist at the USDA: "Ideas that a short while ago might have been dismissed as harebrained Buck Rogers are now being taken quite seriously." It was only in 1983 that scientists inserted the first foreign genes into tobacco and petunias, the "white mice" of the plant world. In the years since, similar work has been done on about 50 species of fruits, vegetables and grains. Calgene, a biotech firm in Davis, Calif., has developed a tomato that does not rot as fast as normal varieties, and hopes...
...disparity between peer-pressure against tobacco and alcohol is so much a part of our culture that we scarcely notice even the most blatant examples. Many non-smokers feel entitled to deliver a physiology lecture every time a friend lights up a smoke. Why no solemn words about the ill-effects of alcohol when those friends pour a drink? No one I know proudly displays cigarette butts in their room, but an empty Stoli bottle on the mantle is a symbol of adulthood. Few Marlboro posters grace the walls of Harvard dormitories, but who knows how many Harvard suites have...
...plan goes further: instead of the old system of joint ventures, foreign companies would have the right to acquire 100% ownership of Soviet firms. The Soviets are already scrambling for Western trade to alleviate the acute shortages that have brought consumers to the verge of revolt. To ease the tobacco rationing that prompted smokers to riot in almost a dozen cities, Philip Morris and RJR Nabisco announced plans last week to sell 34 billion cigarettes to the Russian Republic...
...Both ideas are anathema to Republicans, some of whom, like House minority whip Newt Gingrich, are calling for tax cuts to blunt the edge of a recession. G.O.P. leaders responded with a call for a cut in capital gains taxes, which Democrats adamantly oppose, along with higher levies on tobacco and alcoholic beverages and a $10,000 limit on individual deductions for state and local taxes...