Monopolies in the Philippines (1965–1986) granted PD 1468, which declared the money as private and prevented any government audit. Cojuangco bought San Miguel Corporation (SMC) with the funds from the Coco levy. SMC is one of the oldest and largest beer, food, packaging and livestock conglomerate in the Philippines. President Marcos gave favors to SMC once Cojuangco became its head. Taxes were raised for liquor and cigarettes in January 1986, but excise taxes on beer went down. Beer is one of the main products of SMC, which helped the corporation save as much as $40 million that year. When Marcos was President, he often wrote
Live Not as You Would Like To musical piece and suggested Alexander Serov might do that. Leo Tolstoy enjoyed "Live Not As You Would Like To", admitting that his own "The Power of Darkness" has been written under the influence of Ostrovsky's play. Live Not as You Would Like To Live Not as You Would Like To (, Romanized as: Ne tak zhivi kak khochetsya) is a play by Alexander Ostrovsky. It premiered on 3 December 1854 at the Moscow's Maly Theatre and was published for the first time in the No. 17, September 1855 issue of "Moskvityanin" magazine. Initially Ostrovsky had in mind a five-act drama,