Congress not only added considerably to the cost, but stripped away the protection from future class action lawsuits the tobacco companies thought they were getting.
Three cases that may determine the future of class-action litigation are before the Supreme Court.
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Universities will always feel the tension between the intellectual purity that Mr Collini demands and the grubby business of picking and preparing the future middle class.
To make room for a future middle class, policymakers need to abandon the idea that the fortunes of the economy turn on rising home prices rather than the reverse.
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Telling family stories, the Millers laughed about old snapshots showing the future private first class as a boy -- standing at parade rest while his father spoke to him.
They can target passengers according to their profile, such as those who might be candidates to buy business-class seats in the future, or who fly in business class when their company pays.
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He warned that growing economic inequality threatened the future of the middle class.
The other will lead to an ascending independent and self-sufficient Haiti being lead into the future by its middle class.
Since no one can predict what the best-performing asset class will be in the future, diversification increases the odds of being in the right asset class at the right time.
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She met her future husband in a puppetry class at the University of Maryland in the mid-1950s and the pair created the five-minute TV sketch show Sam and Friends, a precursor to the Muppets that featured an early incarnation of Kermit.
It also can be said, however, that relative to current and recently lowered expectations of future wealth for the middle class, this is probably offering a higher percentage of redistribution than was the case a few years ago or for that matter during the pre-Thatcher British welfare state.
Americans continue to face grim economic prospects, an unemployed or underemployed future, and a shrinking middle class.
What are your future plans in helping middle-class America -- Generation X and Y and middle-class America will get the country out of where we are, and I want to know what are your contingent plans?
Despite the recovery, the middle class are fearful for their future, especially after the 2005 labour-market reforms cut welfare benefits.
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His class made me realize my future lay in entrepreneurship, but Troy also introduced me to the wonders of networking.
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The graduate without a future, then is a middle-class, mostly developed world phenomenon, separate from the rise of youth unemployment.
The director's future ambition is to create a world class research library whose primary specialisation will be the civilisations of the eastern Mediterranean.
The models cover in this class provide a foundation for future social science classes, whether they be in economics, political science, business, or sociology.
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Add that to growing middle class incomes and a bright future, and the online publishing divisions of the big dailies are seeing a traffic surge.
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Supporting the automotive industry through the current crisis and steering a clear transition to a low-carbon future will create millions of middle-class jobs that are vital to a strong economy while reinvigorating American technological superiority.
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When it comes to paying down the deficit and investing in our future, should we ask middle-class Americans to pay even more at a time when their budgets are already stretched to the breaking point?
Mason sees the middle-class, wired graduate without a future in every crowd of angry young people.
One of the main reasons given for this decision was the class' inability to deal with future cruise- and ballistic-missile threats.
Most of the state's business class appears bearish about their own future.
We cannot expect to train our children for the high-skilled jobs of today, or for the opportunities of the future, without investments in a world-class education system.
With this, it can build on its role as a repository for good ideas, connecting research with policy audiences, and principally, as a relevant world-class organisation today and into the future.
Earlier in the debate Mr Neil told MSPs the Scotland's Digital Future Infrastructure Action Plan would deliver a "world class" digital infrastructure for Scotland.
We hope they come to the table for the sake of middle class families, our national security and our future today.
It was a week in which together, we took bold new steps toward restoring economic security for our middle class and rebuilding a stronger foundation for our future.
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