Word: tobacco
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...down a highway in North Carolina, marveling at the novelty of my situation (New Yorkers, contrary to what you might have heard, don't spend much time in the driver's seat). It was a glorious spring day, and the air streaming through my open window was scented with tobacco. Perfect driving conditions...
...That process could stretch on for years, during which time Philip Morris will benefit from a long tradition of judges overturning personal injury awards. Of the six individual plaintiffs who?ve won cases against tobacco companies over the past four years, only one has actually received a part of the initial award. Richard Boeken, whose health is deteriorating rapidly, isn?t holding his breath for a check...
...given great freedom to invest the University’s endowment. But it is a freedom that does not come without caveat. Harvard’s investments in companies like Avenue Entertainment and various tobacco companies have drawn widespread attention to the ethics of HMC’s investments...
...only 18 of 108 proxy votes last year did the CCSR go against the ASCR’s recommendation, even though a prohibition against investment in the tobacco industry is the only blanket policy that has been set out by both ASCR and CCSR...
...Griswold says that the Commonfund has seen a drop-off in shareholder responsibility issues in the 1990s, since no single issue dominates anymore, as apartheid did in the 1980s—now concerns are spread more widely over tobacco, alcohol, child and slave labor, and weapons production...