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Philip Morris Ordered To Pay $300 Million To Former Smoker

Posted 11.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Big Tobacco, Philip Morris, Smoking, Tobacco Litigation, Emphysema, Florida, Altria Group, Business News

MIAMI - CHRISTINE ARMARIO (AP)-- A South Florida jury on Thursday ordered Philip Morris USA to pay $300 million to a former smoker, agreeing that the ...

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Yelling From the Back Step

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Savings and Loan Industry, Merrill Lynch, AIG Bonus, Fdic, Chrysler, Blackwater, Chocolate, Economy, Enron, Toxic Assets, Aig, Aiu, Economic Recovery, Economic Stimulus, Socialism, Edward Liddy, Altria Group, Business News
B. Jeffrey Madoff

"Toxic assets" are two words that don't belong together in the English language. The meaning of one cancels out the meaning of the other.

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There is No "Z" in Blackwater

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Mercenaries, Bush, Blackwater, Xe, Bechtel, Philip Morris, Altria Group, Politics News
Michael B. Laskoff

Mercenaries are a fact of life, as is marketing. Changing your name does not change what you have done, but changing the Commander In Chief can lead to new restrictions.

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Philip Morris Plots Aggressive New Product Blitz

Wall Street Journal | VANESSA O'CONNELL | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Cigarettes, Altria, Nicotine, Smoking, Philip Morris, Marlboro Intense, Altria Group, Marlboros, Business News

Sitting in his office overlooking Lake Geneva, Philip Morris International Chief Executive André Calantzopoulos takes a long drag from an unusually s...

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Wanted: "Imported" CEOs For Growing U.S. Growth Abroad

New York TImes | Louise Story | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Citigroup, 3M, Chevron, R. Kerry Clark, David J. O'Reilly, Alcoa, Gregory M. Spierkel, Hartford Financial Services, Ronald D. Sugar, Vikram S. Pandit, American International Group, E. Neville Isdell, Martin J. Sullivan, Liberty Mutual Group, Ingram Micro, Northrop Grumman, George W. Buckley, Coca-Cola, Ramani Ayer, International CEOs, Alain J.P. Belda, Cardinal Health, Louis C. Camilleri, Dow Chemical, Edmund F. Kelly, News Corp., Rupert Murdoch, "Imported" CEOs, Andrew N. Liveris, Indra K. Nooyi, Altria Group, Pepsico, Business News

The corner offices of corporate America are increasingly being filled from every corner of the world. Citigroup, the world's largest bank, named Vikr...

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