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...senior aide to the previous conservative government. Finance Ministry officials are instead touting Deputy Finance Minister Caio Koch-Weser, a Social Democrat appointee responsible for global finance and currencies. But neither can check in unless Welteke checks out. - By William Boston Smuggle Struggle Ends Philip Morris International, makers of Marlboro, agreed to pay the E.U. $1 billion to head off legal action over the firm's alleged collusion with cigarette smugglers. The deal, involving the largest sum Brussels has ever squeezed out of a private corporation, may not be the last: Japan Tobacco is eager to end a similar dispute...
...when the teacher came and busted everyone else. I'd got away with it, but my classmates' glaring looks shamed me into confessing my sin. Of course, I didn't tell my father those details. I made myself out to be a budding George Washington, whose crime was a Marlboro Light instead of a cherry tree. His letter made me feel I'd snatched victory from the jaws of juvenile delinquency...
...adorned with a large, gaudy image of Jesus, and above the messiah's head?just where a halo ought to be?was a sign that read, disappointingly, "No Smoking." A pity. One garners plenty of saintly patience traveling on Indian buses; a few hard drags on a Marlboro Light would be even better...
...spends about half her time juggling meetings for the boards of numerous nonprofit institutions, including the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Smithsonian Institution and the Marlboro School of Music—and her meetings run like clockwork...
...trouble started in March, when an Illinois court left the Marlboro Man (Altria, formerly Philip Morris) gasping over the prospect of having to post a $12 billion bond before it could appeal an adverse verdict over its marketing of "light" cigarettes. Altria threatened Chapter 11, its corporate-bond ratings were slashed, and state-tobacco bonds reeled, losing 10% of their value. Virginia postponed a $767 million tobacco-bond sale--and that highlighted the real problem...