Word: tobacco
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...month since Colgan's death, the soldiers have been slow to warm to his replacement, Van Engelen, a stolid, tobacco-spitting 24-year-old who lacks his predecessor's charisma. "I still ain't used to him," mutters Whiteside. "There's a difference of experience." Buxton has become a more active, though neurotic leader. Tonight he spends half an hour drawing up different seating arrangements in the three humvees. As the Tomb Raiders grease their guns and pack flashlights and zip-ties (for cuffing hands) into their flak vests, Winston, the platoon's weathered senior sergeant, briefs them...
Roosevelt and Churchill were born eight years apart (Churchill being the elder). As Meacham writes, "They loved tobacco, strong drink, history, the sea, battleships, hymns, pageantry, patriotic poetry, high office, and hearing themselves talk. 'Being with them was like sitting between two lions roaring at the same time,' said [Churchill's daughter] Mary Soames." Each had a powerful sense of the stagecraft of statesmanship. Each was physically brave, profoundly ambitious, a consummate actor and a superb politician. Each was the son of a rich American mother. (Roosevelt, infinitely doted upon, had a happy childhood; Churchill was famously neglected...
Over the past 15 years, the CCSR has moved to completely divest Harvard of its shares in tobacco companies and prohibit future purchases of tobacco stock...
...reason for visiting—instead speaking in euphemisms of the need for a “special partnership” between the school and the state. Rather than providing the Winchendon community with concrete plans for improving the school, he waxed poetically on the dangers of drugs, tobacco and teen pregnancy. Later, when pressed by reporters, the governor plugged his full-day kindergarten initiative and pledged support for finding alternative ways to help schools educate disruptive students...
...Burma because foreign investment lends legitimacy and economic support to the junta. In 1997, Congress outlawed all new U.S. investment there, and President Bush imposed further sanctions this summer. Many European companies have also pulled out, including Premier Oil, the French hotel chain Accor and, last month, British American Tobacco. Total and Unocal argue that their presence has a positive effect. Infant mortality in the pipeline vicinity is one-fourth the national average, they say, and such social indicators as school attendance and employment have gone up. Total itself is facing lawsuits in France and Belgium over its role...