Word: tobaccos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...process for selecting independent counsels must also be changed to prevent obvious partisans like Starr from conducting investigations of political opponents. Starr's connections to anti-Clinton groups and individuals--the tobacco industry and Richard Mellon Scaife, for example--should have immediately precluded him from...
...process for selecting independent counsels must also be changed to prevent obvious partisans like Starr from conducting investigations of political opponents. Starr's connections to anti-Clinton groups and individuals--the tobacco industry and Richard Mellon Scaife, for example--should have immediately precluded him from...
...troops, nothing requiring broad debate and consent. He could not trade pet projects with Republicans in Congress--I'll give you school vouchers if you give me the patients' bill of rights--because he could not afford to annoy any Democrats. And so, in the end, there was no tobacco deal...
...network series Biography. McCain is one of those baroque pearls of American politics, lustrous but irregular, so nobody was surprised that the film made the most of his days as a Navy flyer and a Vietnam-war POW or that it played up his bumpy Senate fights against Big Tobacco and for campaign-finance reform. But it also went long and deep into how he piled up demerits at the U.S. Naval Academy and lost several planes on training runs. It raked over his hard-partying past, his affair that destroyed his first marriage, and his second wife's onetime...
...founded the American Tobacco Company. But the richest girl in the world found only domestic rancor: a hateful mother, scheming lovers and, finally, a butler (Richard Chamberlain, all oil and vitriol--a nicely creepy job) who hastened her death and gained her fortune. This mini-series, directed by John Erman, has the impulse for high trash but not the racing pulse, the quick, bold strokes; its view of the rich getting skewered by the would-be rich is curiously sedate. The reason to watch is Lauren Bacall; she has the glamour, gravity and great bones to give the elder Doris...