Word: truths
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cards when buying cigarettes. (The regulations bar tobacco sales to anyone under the age of 18.) Said Vice President Gore, who greeted the Liggett deal as a breath of fresh air in a smoke-filled room: "It's about time the tobacco companies told the American people the truth...
...than younger ones to warnings about addiction on Liggett cigarette labels. That's because the young are more apt to look upon smoking as cool and the consequences a distant threat. And they may cling to that view even when a major manufacturer admits that with regard to the truth about cigarettes and health, it has been blowing smoke for years...
Because, his boosters say, Tenet's rise was fueled by smarts, loyalty, a taste for truth telling, and a commitment to reform that somehow didn't cost him the respect of the CIA. In 1987 he was a 34-year-old Senate intelligence-committee staff member when chairman David Boren chose him to be the new staff director. Boren put him in charge of auditing clandestine CIA programs. Tenet, says Boren, forced the agency to shut down two major covert operations after his staff found that case officers opposed U.S. policy goals and possibly allowed informants to siphon funds. Since...
...think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter." Unlike Vincent, Carrey has found fans while he's still alive. So far, most have Y chromosomes and are under 25. But he's hoping his newest movie, Liar Liar, in which he plays a dad who has to tell the truth for a day, will change that. "It will open my work up to a different audience, like older women, who I may have alienated," he says. As for going over the top, his current project, The Truman Show, about a man who discovers his life is literally a TV show...
...millionaire had picked up the tab for the student. Stanford, fearing the NCAA would strip its star golfer of his amateur status, made Woods send Palmer a check for his half of the tab: $25. Story has it that Palmer kept the check and framed it, but the truth is that he did cash it, more for Tiger's sake than...