Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...threatened journalist what course of action to take Fleeing means giving in to terrorism. Staying means living in constant fear. Yet the press does have the responsibility to report the conditions under which journalists work. Armed with all the facts, a reader may approach a story with a healthy dose of skepticism. But that is better than the outright disbelief that more incidents like the kidnapping cover up would no doubt engender...
Like the nuclear arms race, the space race is characterized by rhetorical half-truths, hysterical warnings and a sizable dose of governmental paranoia. Robert Jastrow, founder of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Goodard Institute for Space Studies, has asserted in a recent New York Times Magazine article that "since Sputnik, Moscow has undertaken a massive military space program that appears designed to do nothing less than control space." But apart from shadowy references to a 1957 speech by then-Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, Jastrow's case against the USSR relied mainly on speculation...
...method and motive, the killer clearly knew what he was doing. In each case, the red half of the contaminated capsule was discolored and slightly swollen. When opened, the capsules emitted the telltale almond odor of cyanide; the poison was present in quantities thousands of times the usual fatal dose. Says Police Chief Carl Sostak of Winfield, Ill., home of one victim: "Apparently a very sophisticated and very malicious person is at large who had to spend a lot of time and a lot of effort on this terrible plan...
...Chicago hospital received 700 calls about Tylenol in one day. People in Pittsburgh, Cleveland and other cities were hospitalized on suspicion of cyanide poisoning. Dr. William Robertson, director of the Poison Control Center in Seattle, offered some grim words of reassurance: "If it was going to be a lethal dose, you wouldn't have time to call...
Were God and his inspired scriptural writers unforgivably long-winded? Could they have benefited, like other authors, from a dose of tough-minded, un-worshipful editing? Verily, saith the Reader's Digest, and last week it brought forth the Reader's Digest Bible. Priced at $16.95, it is 320,000 words (or 40%) shorter than the Protestant text of the Revised Standard Version on which it is based; the Old Testament has been cut down by half and the New by onefourth. Alas, less in this instance is not more...