Word: coughing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Smoking: Yes in California. A last-minute advertising blitz snuffed out a proposal to limit smoking in restaurants, stores and other public places. Smokers who violated no-smoking sanctuaries would have had to cough up a $15 fine. The measure was supported by Chemist Linus Pauling, Photographer Ansel Adams and other notable nonsmokers. The tobacco industry led a $2.3 million counterattack with ads suggesting that the measure heralded the arrival of Big Brother, would work hardships on small businessmen who could not afford to construct no-smoking areas, and would waste the time of law enforcement officials...
...used to import raw materials and create new jobs." Saigon is also welcoming investment from Western nations. In partnership with Viet Nam's Ministry of Health, the French chemical firm Rhone-Poulenc has invested $500,000 in a factory where 120 Saigonese produce vitamin C, aspirin and cough syrup...
Just as Americans are learning that they will have to pay stiff prices for the new small, fuel-efficient cars Detroit is now producing, consumers are also discovering that they must cough up lots of money for less glamorous living accommodations. Housing today often means unfinished rooms, small condominium apartments and mobile homes...
DIED. Pearl Luella Kendrick, 90, microbiologist who in 1939 helped develop a vaccine that led to the virtual eradication of whooping cough, long a childhood scourge; of cancer; in Grand Rapids, Mich. Kendrick also developed the standard DPT shot, which provides combined protection against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus...
Harvard's only loss of the day came at the third singles slot. Slowed by illness the past couple of weeks, freshman Erica Schulman was beaten by a fever and cough more than by the Tufts player, losing to a woman she had beaten in the second round of the GBCs...