Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...pressure: after California banned smoking in all public areas in 1997, including bars and taverns, and with similar legislation in Massachusetts pending, it is becoming increasingly difficult not to jump on the bandwagon of public denunciation--even if such denunciation means appearing hypocritical. If confronted, any executive from a tobacco company could simply claim to have the facts in his favor: "we have admitted that smoking causes cancer, what else do you expect us to do?" And surprisingly, few would realistically respond, "stop producing cigarettes." Is that because the American business ethic is still stronger than the health ethic...
...Hugh's involvement, despite his having little relevant experience, with a group of plaintiffs' lawyers fighting Big Tobacco that led to his most high-profile public castigation, this one from the President's foes in Congress. The lawyers' massive class action against cigarette makers on behalf of injured smokers was dismissed in 1996. But the attorneys, known as the Castano group, elbowed their way into separate ongoing negotiations between the cigarette companies and state attorneys general, who had their own lawsuits going against the tobacco firms. How did these lawyers manage to get involved? Largely because of Hugh's presence...
...immemorial TV journalist, much honored anchor of 60 Minutes--is on the phone to film director Michael Mann. Mann is making a movie about one of the less exalted episodes in Wallace's career, the time four years ago when 60 Minutes suppressed its story on Jeffrey Wigand, a tobacco-industry whistle blower. Mann's film moves on two tracks. One is the anguished dealings between Wigand and Lowell Bergman, a 60 Minutes producer who is leash holder and hand holder for the tormented Wigand. The other is the no less anguished dealings between Bergman and his friend and mentor...
Mann's film, The Insider, which opens around the country next week, is also a drama about credibility. So the movie asks if Bergman can trust the insular and somber Wigand, who says that Brown & Williamson, the tobacco company where he once worked as chief of research, knowingly added cancer-causing chemicals to its products. Can Wigand trust Bergman, who keeps pushing him to go public with his story, though it cost him his severance pay, his peace of mind and his marriage? Can Bergman trust Wallace? And can anybody trust 60 Minutes, the most lustrous of TV newsmagazines...
...exercise briefly on treadmills and stationary bicycles, and use light boxes that are designed to suppress melatonin, which induces sleep. So far, a third of those involved in the Williams program have reported improvements in their alertness and energy levels. Many other U.S. companies, like Sony Electronics, Brown & Williamson Tobacco and Dow Chemical, are offering their employees innovative programs similar to those at Williams. Some--though not many--U.S. companies, like Schwab, Deloitte Touche, Schlumberger and CSX Corp., even approve of at-work naps to improve alertness...