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...free enterprise. Everyone wants to engage me in a philosophical debate on free enterprise, but the free-enterprise system has gone to hell. Other companies have gotten federal aid, but it was "different." The Federal Housing Administration loan guarantees are "different." The agricultural subsidies on tobacco are "different." Everything is "different." Where were the free enterprisers in '67 with the Highway Safety Act, in '70 with the Clean Air Act and in '75 with the Fuel Conservation Act? Those laws have us so regulated that a while ago, when GM put out a price rise...
...number of deaths in as exposed population is a statistical certainy, it is impossible to identify which cancers are due to radiation and not to other causes. For this reason, the nuclear industry can disingenously challenge critics to point to a single radiation fatality. Gofman compares the nuclear and tobacco industries in this respect. Cigarettes may be linked to 90 per cent of lung cancers, but the individual smoker can't prove his own cancer isn't traceable to something else. Of course, unlike the average Harrisburg resident, the smoker chooses to pay his money and take his chances...
...enough was enough. And they closed down the only radioactive waste disposal site in the East equipped to handle the sludge that university labs were sending their way. Closed it down, that is, to everybody but South Carolina and its neighboring states. Then the word floated up through the tobacco fields and hit Cambridge like Three Mile Island hit the folks at Babcock and Wilcox. One official in the Northeast called down to once-amiable Barnwell and tried to get them to change their minds. "We're not even third cousins anymore," came the curt reply...
...been solid; he supports vacancy decontrol, has had experience in fighting racism and wants to draw the city's diverse elements together. But Finnegan seems overly sympathetic to the needs of the private sector. His embarrassing resignation from his $20,000 a year job as a lobbyist for the tobacco industry is only symptomatic of such leanings...
Imperial, which is Britain's sixth largest corporation, with earnings of $276.5 million on sales of $7.71 billion in the past fiscal year, first flourished in tobacco and now operates 5,500 pubs and 30 hotels. It has long been seeking a sizable U.S.beachhead. Buying one is relatively painless because the rising pound (it has climbed in value from $ 1.70 to $2.20 in the past two years) has cut the price of U.S. properties. Though Howard Johnson's management will stay on, the firm is expected to be more aggressive in marketing and expanding, notably on the tight...