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...battered by mounting lawsuits and seesawing stock prices. And now the new rules, part of a bid to stop smoking among teenagers, establish a precedent the industry has feared for decades. Clinton signed an Executive Order that subjects tobacco to regulation by the Food and Drug Administration. As a twist of the knife, the FDA claims its new authority over cigarettes by defining them as the delivery system for an addictive drug, nicotine. Alphabetically, that would put it after morphine and right before opium. Not exactly wholesome company...
...dull, sanitized-for-tv convention until that electric moment on Thursday night. Few knew that Bob Dole had injured his ankle getting out of the motorcade earlier. But he shook off the pain, courageously mounted the podium for his acceptance vault, completed the difficult 1 1/2 twist and stuck the landing. As he crumpled to the floor in pain, chants of "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" filled the arena...
...really just putting a new twist on the old nomination standard," Angotti said...
...twist to the nature-versus-nature debate raging in the academic and popular literature, two professors have published a study suggesting that school conditions can have a substantial impact on students' test scores...
...Glenn Miller and John Wayne, are dead--Dole was taken to task after his first Hollywood "nightmares-of-depravity" speech for criticizing movies he hadn't seen and music he hadn't heard. Now that he was planning to do a back flip with a one-and-a-half twist from his earlier position--Hollywood isn't so depraved after all--he needed to do his homework...