Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inner ring road, and the North-to-South Elevated Expressway cutting through downtown. About 20% to 30% will derive from a joint venture that makes chassis, front suspensions, rear axles, steering and shock absorbers for the Shanghai Volkswagen Automotive Co. The third revenue stream is produced by Nanyang Bros. Tobacco Co., a Hong Kong manufacturer of the popular Double Happiness cigarettes, which last year had sales of $141.6 million. Responsible for as much as 80% of SIHL profits in 1996, Double Happiness will contribute only 20% to 30% this year. The decline is actually good news. It stems not from...
...survey, the first part of a long-running, $25 million study, interviewed 20,000 teenagers. It found that kids who have a strong sense of connection to their parents were less likely to be violent or indulge in drugs, alcohol, tobacco or early sex. And feeling close to teachers is by far the most important school-related predictor of well-being...
...Weld got a severe case of inner-Beltway butterflies, causing him to throw in the towel against Jesse Helms. The President himself got an attack of parental nerves as Chelsea left for Stanford; so distraught was her dad that he had to lean on something extremely soft ? like the tobacco settlement...
WASHINGTON: For politicians, there are hot seat issues and there are comfortable armchair issues. But in the tobacco settlement, President Clinton has found a real La-Z-Boy ? where he can take an extremely popular position without lifting a finger. "Put simply, he wants to renegotiate," says TIME's White House correspondent Jef McAllister. "And he can, because he took this issue on a year ago and it's clearly got his stamp on it. Now he's come down on the side of C. Everett Koop and David Kessler, who say the settlement doesn't do enough for children...
...Even better for Clinton is that any fight over the issue is a long way off. Congestion in Congress will push the haggling off until 1998 ? an election year, where tobacco lobbies will find their favorite congressmen are suddenly more image-wary than ever. Clinton's list of demands contains a lot that Michael Moore and Co. decided they could live without. But with a can't-miss issue and a year to make it sing, this president can drive a very hard bargain...