61.   Taking over were two longtime tobacco executives, Murray, the new chairman, and Geoffrey C. Bible, the new president and chief executive.

62.   That is a conclusion to be shunned with the same intensity that tobacco executives muster for their denials that cigarettes cause cancer.

63.   That is a relief, though the cuts in other social services will keep tobacco executives popping out of the pack-in-the-box.

64.   The ad used excerpts from congressional testimony by tobacco executives who said nicotine was not addictive.

65.   The bill also would derail Big Tobacco from marketing to teens, an unseemly practice that even some tobacco industry executives now denounce.

66.   The attorneys general, along with a group of private plaintiffs attorneys, last met with tobacco executives and attorneys last week in Chicago.

67.   The consumer advocate said that tobacco executives settled partly out of fear of going to prison for perjury, and that the industry interests got off too easily.

68.   The former tobacco executive is emerging as a major weapon in pending suits against the tobacco industry.

69.   The Justice Department continues look into whether tobacco executives lied to Congress and the Food and Drug Administration about the potential addictive nature of nicotine.

70.   The industry remains focused on getting an annual cap on private litigation judgments, according to a senior tobacco company executive.