Congress would not limit how much the special master could pay out.

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That master of hype once wooed more people to pay to see an elephant he'd painted white than a rival circus master attracted with a real snowy one.

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Years later, what you thought was a daub by a chimp with a paintbrush turns out to be an old master - and you have to pay through the nose for it!

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The special master would decide what would be fair compensation and move quickly to pay it.

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But that was long before Hanes began moving much of its production offshore, and before the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement (under which the tobacco companies agreed in 1998 to pay hundreds of billions of dollars in damages for harming people's health), the leveraged buy-out of RJR by a private-equity firm, the elimination of federal farm price support for tobacco and decades of anti-smoking advertising.

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His mother couldn't afford to pay college tuition, so he landed an engineering scholarship at West Virginia Institute of Technology, later receiving a master's degree from Princeton University.

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