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...keep their customers hooked. For example, the report cited a 1972 internal memo by a Philip Morris scientist noting that "no one has ever become a cigarette smoker by smoking cigarettes without nicotine" and advising the company to "think of the cigarette as a dispenser for a dose unit of nicotine." In their defense, cigarette makers say it is no secret that they control the amount of nicotine in cigarettes. "How do you think in the past 20 years tobacco companies have produced low-nicotine cigarettes?" asks Thomas Lauria of the Tobacco Institute. He insists that cigarettes never contain higher...
...Sage, who was Ramirez's unionrepresentative until last week, said he turned thegrievance process over to a union steward in theUniversity security guard unit...
...hate until, he says, his mother was jailed and beaten by Muslims. "When she got out she wouldn't talk about it. That's when I picked up a gun and began shooting Muslims. I hate them all." His anger and keen marksmanship drew him to a sniper unit. An officer taught Pipo a useful mental trick for his new line of work: "Don't let the faces follow...
Washington -- U.S. workers often gripe that illegal aliens are taking their jobs -- and now that complaint is being made by convicts. Federal Prison Industries, a Justice Department unit that employs 16,000 federal prisoners (some make furniture for $1 an hour), told TIME that 4,500 of its workers -- about 28% -- are aliens. Inmates believe that many, if not most, are in this country illegally. Federal law prohibits the "knowing" employment of such workers, but a lawyer for FPI says it doesn't ask inmates if they're in the U.S. illegally...
...department or organizational unit laying offa staff member continues to have an obligation tohim/her for two year following the layoff," themanual sstates. "During this time, the departmentor unit must (1) make an offer of employment tohim/her should the same job again becomeavailable, or (2) give strong preference tohim/her in filling any new job having similarduties and responsibilities, provided the laid-offstaff member is qualified to perform the duties ofthe open position