Word: tobacco
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Here, in a retrofitted hangar in the heart of tobacco country, is an early glimpse of what life could be like if the recent Senate compromise on immigration passes. Two busloads of tobacco workers, fresh from the Mexican state of Nayarít, are met and ministered to by a cadre of social and health workers, a federal agent from the Department of Labor, even a union organizer. In all, they spend almost four hours filling out paperwork, watching movies about how to avoid pesticide sickness and getting a set of no-nonsense rules (if you fight, you're fired...
...Still, at NAM, Baroody has fought to shield manufacturers from safety claims and fines over products ranging from asbestos to tobacco. That is, of course, his job. Most of the Administration's former lobbyists haven't broken any rules; they've just sided with industry against consumer activists and environmentalists. That's their job. Hiring a NAM lobbyist to oversee consumer safety regulation is a bit like letting a child set his own bedtime. It's only a problem if you expect enforcement...
...passed in March 2003. Pasricha said that her biggest challenge came when speaking at the legislative hearings weighing the bill. “One of the legislators asked me, ‘If we pass this bill, aren’t we going to hurt the tobacco farms?’†Pasricha said. Pasricha recalls responding that she sought alternative uses for tobacco, working in a biotechnology lab that summer and arriving at the discovery that “the tobacco plant is very helpful for developing a vaccine for one type...
...Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) is not meeting its own goal for monitoring licensed firearms dealers. At the current rate of inspections, says an ATF spokeswoman, it would take 17 years to inspect all existing license holders. ATF's stated goal is to complete a routine inspection every three years. "At our current staffing levels we are unable to meet that goal," ATF's chief public affairs officer, Sheree Mixell, told TIME...
...movie: he shares he secret with his girlfriend. The third movie is about how it's not so super being a hero. Success, that cruel muse, threatens to transform him into a corrupt cartoon of his earlier, purer self. Recall that, in Superman III, a blend of kryptonite and tobacco tar split the Man of Steel in half, into good Supe and bad Supe. Christ battles antichrist, and they're the same person...