Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WASHINGTON: It isn't just the government that's punishing smokers. The tobacco industry itself is now betting that the same addicts whose health problems roped it into a $368 billion legal settlement will fork over an additional 62 cents per pack to help keep cigarette makers in business...
Holmes Real Estate Trust proposed to tear down the Carl Barron Plaza building--home to well-known small businesses including Emily Rose Shoppe Inc., the Lucy Parsons Center and Wiener Discount Tobacco--and replace it with an 11-story structure housing residential apartments and retail stores. Holmes has not yet officially filed for permits to begin construction...
...signed the budget that contains $95 billion in tax cuts ? or rather, tax loopholes. The President made a show of bipartisanship on the White House lawn with Speaker Gingrich at his side ? and chances are he won't be using his line-item veto to remove a pro-tobacco provision that Republicans sneaked in at the last minute. Clinton knows that any veto would have caused "political misery," says TIME's Jef McAllister, by undoing the delicate bipartisan balance of the hard-won budget deal. Minority leader Dick Gephardt told the White House he would try, in later legislation...
Assistant Professor of Law Jon D. Hanson will host a day-long conference on July 31 to examine the proposed national tobacco settlement currently being considered by Congress...
Matt Myers of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, who has, according to Hanson, played an integral role in the negotiations, will speak at the conference. Hanson is also expecting Elizabeth Cabraser, an attorney who tried the Castano class action case and David Kentoff, who represents Phillip Morris...