Word: tobacco
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...Department of Justice threatened to strike Straus Professor of Business Administration Max H. Bazerman from its witness list if he refused to weaken his testimony advocating for the appointment of outside officials to review the companies’ business practices and possibly to remove senior tobacco company executives, Bazerman said last week...
...hosting of the 1976 games. But don't try and convince Québécois smokers of that. Capital and infrastructure expenditures - for venues such as the Olympic Village and the stadium - spiraled so out of control that the city had to impose a $2 billion tax on tobacco to get out of its financial hole. To this day, 17? out of every pack of cigarettes purchased in Quebec goes to pay for Olympic construction...
...Fables, the Bible, Shakespeare and especially The Columbian Orator, a popular anthology of speeches for boys. They were athletic, strong and tall: Douglass was about 6 ft., Lincoln 6 ft. 4 in., when the average height for men was 5 ft. 7 in. They refrained from alcohol and tobacco at a time when many politicians "squirted their tobacco juice upon the carpet" and drank on the job. They were ambitious men and had great faith in the moral and technological progress of their nation. And they both called slavery a sin. "If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong," Lincoln...
...Winstons and Camels he puffed so prodigiously fueled his addiction and thus killed him. But last week a jury in Santa Barbara, Calif., voted 9 to 3 that Galbraith's lawyer Melvin Belli had not proved that smoking necessarily caused Galbraith's death or that he was a tobacco addict. The panel of eleven nonsmokers and one smoker agreed with Reynolds' attorney Thomas Workman that Galbraith "smoked because he loved it. He knew the risks involved and took them...
...verdict was a major victory for Reynolds and for the tobacco industry as a whole, which currently faces more than 40 similar liability suits. Lawyer Belli plans an appeal, based on Judge Bruce Dodds' refusal to admit important evidence about the Surgeon General's reports on the hazards of smoking...