Word: tobacco
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...already weak global economy are creating a perfectly awful storm that may not dissipate even after the shooting stops in Baghdad and the masks come off in Hong Kong. Here's a look at a few of the players who are thriving or diving right now. WINNERS IMPERIAL TOBACCO: The leading British cigarette firm is a safe haven in uncertain times because of its huge cash flow - almost one-tenth of its total $13 billion sales. Its stock price has made a steady 12% gain since February, despite the market's wartime worries. Besides, if the war stays nasty, jittery...
While in the White House, Kagan worked closely with Clinton to draft the tobacco legislation introduced by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz...
...collection, including one fashioned from the gnarled wood of the Thai phrik khi nu chili bush, which was said to impart a spicy flavor to the opium smoke. Also on exhibition are dozens of pipe bowls, the bulbous feature that sets an opium pipe apart from an ordinary tobacco pipe. Roughly the size of a doorknob and produced in myriad shapes, the pipe bowl was a canvas on which Chinese artisans displayed their talents. Patterns on pipe bowls ranged from geometrical designs, such as the Hindu swastika (also used in Buddhist art), to whimsical portraits of Chinese roosters, tigers, dragons...
...Hammoud case began innocuously enough in 1995. Local sheriff's detective Bob Fromme, working off-duty as a security guard at JR Tobacco Warehouse in Statesville, N.C., grew suspicious when he saw a group of Middle Eastern men repeatedly buying hundreds of cartons of cigarettes apiece. Local prosecutors in tobacco-friendly North Carolina weren't interested, but Fromme persuaded the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to investigate. Just as they were poised to bring charges, the FBI swooped in and took over - linking the smuggling operation to the Hizballah cell that Hammoud allegedly headed...
...final tale, Simon Winchester's poignant coda to a life on the move, Coming Home in Massachusetts, celebrates tilling the soil as an act that instantly turns a place into a home. "In that moment I was utterly hooked ... Tractor smoke, fine Syrian tobacco, blue alfalfa and wild mint made a cocktail of, well, probably pheromones ... that produced for me a true olfactory epiphany. It was as though in that one instant the earth sang out: ?Dig holes here. Put down roots...