Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...growing challenge to U.S. cigarette sales in Asia may be the local competition. Japan Tobacco, a former state-run monopoly that is being privatized, is already learning the marketing ways of the Marlboro man and the Virginia Slims woman. To attract younger customers, the company introduced a brand of cigarettes known as Dean, playing off the popularity of Hollywood legend James Dean. Since antismoking campaigns are only beginning to build in most Asian countries, the region's cigarette-marketing wars are likely to produce plenty of smoke and profits for several years to come...
Tennessee was not the only site of an embryo dispute. Last week Risa and Steven York of California quietly settled their lawsuit against the Virginia institute holding their frozen embryo. The institute agreed to release the cells to the Yorks for implantation on the West Coast if it would not be held responsible for what happens when it surrenders custody...
Flight 2 doubles was no different, as both teams advanced to the round of eight. Freshman Rachel Pollack and Harvard Co-Captain Niki Rival topped Virginia's Kristin Kepler and Rebecca Kopack, 6-3, 2-6, 7-5, and junior Debbie Cohen and junior Tricia Small advanced with a 7-6 (7-4), 6-3 victory over Trinity's Stephanie Desmond and Aimee Shoemacker...
...NOTEBOOK: The seven other schools participating in the Invitational are B.C., Illinois, North Carolina, Princeton, Trinity, Virginia and Yale...The doubles quarterfinals and semifinals begin at 9 a.m. this morning with the final tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. The singles semifinals begin at 1 p.m. today with the finals at 12:30 tomorrow. All matches will be played at the Beren Tennis Center...
...State Appreciation: Despite his drastic plummet in the public opinion polls, Gov, Michael S. Dukakis still seems to command the respect of the University of Virginia community. At this week's presidential summit on education held there, Dukakis received sustained applause when he arrived for public events...