Word: tobacco
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This year, environmental issues and human rights questions dominated the agenda of Harvard's shareholder responsibility committees, which released their annual report yesterday. In contrast to recent years, few questions relating to tobacco were discussed...
...Assume the worst [about the Clinton campaign]," he began, pausing dramatically. "Now double it. Does it match the fact that Newt Gingrich gave [tobacco interests] a $50 billion tax cut at one o'clock in the morning...
Reasons to Move There: An unusually diverse racial mix, a first-rate cultural life (recent visitors: Wynton Marsalis, the Royal Philharmonic), and a rock-solid economy (tobacco, livestock, seven Fortune 500 companies) all wrapped up in streetscapes borrowed from Norman Rockwell...
...Even if you're lucky enough to slot in these categories, however, you still have violence, suicide, tobacco and HIV to contend with. All are expected to shoot up the cause-of-death charts in the next century. Best not to tell your life insurance company just...
When Clinton took office, the Democratic Party already had a centrist wing, and it looked like Martin Lancaster, Congressman from the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Lancaster spent his childhood on a tobacco farm and his adulthood in the naval reserves. In so doing, he embodied the two economic pillars of many rural districts throughout the South: agriculture and the military. In Congress he lovingly cared for eastern Carolina's Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune. And he defended subsidies for tobacco, peanuts and hogs (one of the district's biggest exporters was called Carolina Oink Express...