Word: feds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ultimately, victims are bedridden and fed through a straw, since they can't swallow or chew," Gusella said. "The same cell death causes intellectual loss, memory loss, and psychiatric changes like impulsive behavior and chronic depression...
...angry Cantabrigian said he was fed up with crime in Harvard Square, adding that he had tried for three years to get an appointment with Healy to discuss the problem...
...notes at one point, "acts as a trial laboratory as well as a processing plant, and it's also an artist at work." The author, though, has a splendid eye for culinary trivia. In the Germanic dukedom of Saxony, noblemen who illicitly married commoners were punished by being force-fed pepper until they died. The builders of Egypt's pyramids were paid off in onions. The Roman scholar Pliny was startled by the high retail prices of the Eternal City -- "Have times really changed?" the author asks -- and believed that the odor of garlic would repel scorpions...
WHEN IT COMES TO GETTING RID OF LIFE'S UNWANTed gifts, fruitcakes and Father's Day ties are best fed to the dog, accidentally lost or -- a method favored by many Americans -- simply passed along to friends. None of these options sufficed, however, when 420 tons of German pesticides were "given" to Romania by a waste-disposal contractor who said the cargo was part of an aid package. In fact, the toxic mess was dumped in the Romanian town of Sibiu. Embarrassed, the German government will begin shipping the chemicals back this week...
Another beneficiary of the scandal is Mario Segni, 53, a renegade Christian Democrat who wants a referendum on election reform. Says Segni: "Italy has lived through a horrible phase of corruption. The only good sign is that people are finally fed up." Adds Leoluca Orlando, 45, leader of the reformist La Rete party: "The old boys have had their chance. Now they must move aside and let us clean...