Word: tobacco
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...report divided the issues that the ACSR and CCSR dealt with into 19 categories such as "Environment," "Tobacco-related Issues," "International Workplace Practices," "Equal Employment," "Board Diversity" and "Executive Compensation...
...There is a flickering possibility that Judge N. Sanders Sauls, who basically spit tobacco juice on David Boies' black Reeboks, left the Gore team a back door: what the judge deemed the "reasonable probability" that the hand count could "change or place in doubt the outcome of the election." And Boies' case is that there's only one way to tell...
Biotechnology is touted as a saving grace of our weird and wired world because it uses "nature" to further human ends. We can grow more "productive" corn, or "cooler" tobacco that glows in the dark. Yet our faith in technological progress should not stop us from relentlessly challenging our motivations and our ends. What are the ends of more "productive" corn and "cooler" tobacco? Are the means we're implementing the most effective ones? And, lest we forget, is the biotechnological innovation a good technology, or is it insufficient? Not only are GM organisms ethically and environmentally questionable, they...
...consumers of California do not look on foreign trade in the same way Michigan's autoworkers do. People view guns in the suburbs of New Jersey very differently than they do in the towns of western Pennsylvania. The drive toward smoke-free environments in California has consequences for tobacco farmers in North Carolina...
...Martin Meehan (D-Lowell) has received accolades for co-sponsoring landmark campaign finance reform legislation, defending President Clinton during the impeachment proceedings and fighting Big Tobacco...