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...used saxitoxin in suicide pills for its own agents (U2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers had one, but chose to pass it up) and had it on hand to eliminate troublesome guard dogs when breaking into embassies and some other places. The agency reportedly developed dart guns and other clever means of delivering the poison...
...m.p.h., cover 200 miles a day in search of food, and eat just about anything. But, experts say, coyotes are particularly successful in urban areas because they are unusually crafty-perhaps, some animal behaviorists theorize, because decades of hunting and trapping by man have weeded out the less clever and wary of them. Concedes Robert Rush, chief of the Los Angeles Animal Regulation Department: "The coyotes have a lot of smarts. They can get water out of a pool in Brentwood while the pet dog is sleeping inside...
...going to talk to you with sweet words," he said. "The situation in the world is not just dangerous. It is not just threatening. It is catastrophic!" He noted that Nikita Khrushchev used to tell the U.S., "We will bury you." Today, said Solzhenitsyn, the Soviets are too clever to say that. "Now all the Soviets say is 'détente...
...example: a man about to go bankrupt owns a car worth $800. Because its value exceeds the allowable exemption, the car would normally be seized. A clever bankruptcy lawyer could avoid that by arranging for his client to borrow $800 from a finance company, using the car as collateral. If this is done, the car has no value except to the holder of the mortgage-i.e., the finance company-so it will not be taken away. To protect the borrowed $800, the client then deposits it in an S and L account, which is exempt from seizure. After being...
...which President Conant called Wilder's remarks "the most significant I have ever heard from an academic man on a commencement program"). Wilder stated: "All literature is one expression of one human life experience. And when James Joyce plays upon 24 languages as upon a clever [we shouldn't] find it preposterous. All the languages in the world are but local differentiations of one planetary tongue...