Word: louise
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St. Louis 5, N.Y. Islanders 4
Signs of Chrysler's troubles are multiplying. The company lost $664 million in the last quarter of 1989, announced plant closings in Detroit and St. Louis, and laid off more than 2,300 of its 31,000 salaried workers. For the first time since 1982, when Iacocca used federally guaranteed...
In Los Angeles the names often come from studios and talent agencies; in Washington, from government and politics; in Chicago, from local pro sports teams, although any item about talk hostess Oprah Winfrey will do; in St. Louis, from Busch brewery heirs; in Boston, from the corridors of the state...
-- Louis Sullivan, Secretary of Health and Human Services, charged that smoking costs the nation $52 billion a year. Said he: "Cigarettes are the only legal product that when used as intended cause death."
Other forms of marketing are taking flak as well. In his second antismoking salvo of the week, Sullivan denounced tobacco sponsorship of sporting events, notably Virginia Slims tennis tournaments, for using "the prestige and the image of the athlete" to tempt young people to light up. Mark Green's first...