Word: haunted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...voice fades, and the room begins to spin. The previous week, over-whelmed with laziness and desperation, I had turned in a ridiculous war story I'd written in eighth grade. Now it is coming back to haunt me like an illegitimate...
When a New York woman died on Feb. 8 after taking cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules, executives at Johnson & Johnson, maker of the painkiller, saw an old nightmare returning to haunt them. They recalled all too vividly how their company was shaken in 1982 after seven people in Illinois died from poisoned Tylenol. This time, Johnson & Johnson was ready. Responding swiftly and smoothly to the new crisis, it immediately and indefinitely canceled all television commercials for Tylenol, established a toll-free telephone hotline to answer consumer questions and offered refunds or exchanges to customers who had purchased Tylenol capsules. At week...
...should both face social accusation." Such accusation may have drastic implications; China's legal system lumps almost all sex crimes under the category of rape, which carries severe penalties, including long imprisonment or death in cases of serious injury or homicide. The possibility of a rape charge can haunt almost any male in China. Many of the rapes recounted in Girls, Be Vigilant! and in the daily press are either seductions or panicky charges leveled by young girls. Normally, consensual-sex "rape" results in prison terms of three to five years...
...contributions up 385 percent between 1976 and 1984 and with special interests using their influence to help bury this measure, PAC reform seems as likely a prospect this spring as real tax reform. But if this bill fails, the spectre of quid pro quo campaign contributions will further haunt American politics...
...there is no doubt about the natural superiority of pasta, there are several questions that haunt the addict who dreams of little else. What pasta shapes go best with which sauces? Is the rich meatiness of a beef-and-tomato sauce better appreciated when wound into the long, sturdy strands of bucatini or when filling the cavities of the convoluted lumache, or snail shell? Have any shapes become so unfashionable that they are being phased out? What will the newly increased U.S. tariff (from less than 1% of value to 40%) do to the price of imported pasta? And, finally...