Word: tobacco
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...violence tightens the deadlock in Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, there appears to be some progress on the Israel-Syria front (TIME Daily) ... The Democratic Party's top lawyer has defended Al Gore's controversial White House fundraising phone calls (AllPolitics) ... A budget bill provision that was effectively funding the tobacco industry has been struck down (TIME Daily) ...Rocky Actor Burgess Meredith has died at the age of 89 (TIME Daily) ... Former Clinton cabinet member Mike Espy has pleaded not guilty to corruption charges ... (Reuters) ... As for Clinton himself, what has he learned in four-and-a-half years about being...
WASHINGTON: If there's one thing a Congressman hates, it's looking like a tool of big business ? especially when it's a business as unpopular as Big Tobacco. Although a provision was quietly slipped into last month's tax-cut legislation allowing tobacco companies to use the cost of a gradual 15-cent per pack increase ? some $50 billion ? as a credit towards the proposed $368.5 billion national settlement, Senators began to disown the plan once it was made public. Wednesday, the Senate overwhelmingly voted to squash it altogether. "This is the kind of thing that no Congressman wants...
...Other News: Sixty-five people are believed dead in a fiery plane crash in Cambodia (Reuters) ... Arizona Governor Fyfe Simington has been found guilty on seven counts of bank fraud (All Politics) ... Vice-President Al Gore has denied knowledge of campaign finance wrongdoing (TIME Daily)... Big Tobacco increases wholesale cigarette prices nearly 8 percent (TIME Daily) ... Volatile Southeast Asian markets could cause a banking collapse (TIME Daily) ... and your GP may not know his stethascope from his elbow (TIME Daily...
GEOFFREY BIBLE Teaching an old dog new tricks. Philip Morris head says tobacco can, maybe, er, kill...
...summer are creating Labor Day gas pains for holiday commuters (Reuters) ... Muslim rebels have slaughtered 98 people, mostly women and children, in Algeria (TIME Daily) ... Just for a moment, the Mir crew lost their main oxygen generator, and "couldn't find it anywhere," according to mission control (Reuters) ... Big Tobacco may save money in State settlements (TIME Daily) ... Two thousand people march in New York to protest police brutality ... (Reuters) ... Non-citizen immigrants lose their food stamps Monday (TIME Daily) ... The Kennedy name loses its luster in Massachusetts as Joe drops out of the governor's race (TIME Daily...