Samuel Cahan's May 5 letter on oil company controls proves what Hegel once said: "What experience and history teach is this that people and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it. Price controls have never worked; witness the debacle when the Nixon administration implemented them in the '70s or the failed experiment in socialism that was the U. Here is what happens when the government gets involved in free enterprise: money is paid to...

We have made the decision to end our direct involvement in various flue-cured growing projects in Africa and are taking the necessary steps to right-size the operations. Those charges, which totaled about $31 million, were primarily composed of impairment charges on long-lived assets and Company-managed farming operations in Africa and, combined with related tax effects, reduced net income by $24. The current quarter reflected about $3 million in provisions for farmer receivables compared...

The professor quipped, Since it protects you from Alzheimer s, you WON T FORGET that you died of cardiovascular disease, stroke, emphysema and most forms of cancer (particularly lung cancer, cancer of the kidney, cancer of the larynx and head and neck, bladder, esophagus, pancreas and stomach) Being the most common type of dementia, Alzheimer s is a progressive brain disorder that gradually destroys a person s memory and ability to learn, reason, make judgments, communicate and carry out...

Nearly all the proposed legislation Russell County sought to improve roads, employee salaries and providing for the orderly growth in its rural population centers passed the Alabama Senate on Thursday, needing only Gov. The county fire departments are funded through fundraisers, subscriptions and a county tobacco tax. The county commission would have received 60 percent of the proceeds, with employee salaries one of the budget items to benefit from the new revenue. Overall, it was a...

They object to the plan because it would be financed by a tobacco tax increase. Helens woman has anxiously awaited passage of the governor's Healthy Kids Plan, which would provide health coverage for her four children and more than 100,000 other uninsured kids in Oregon. But her mortgage payment and a salary for an assistant eat up half the money coming in from her day-care business, leaving far too little to pay for health insurance. Or, more precisely, she's distraught over what's not...