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...stake for the world to tolerate for long the problem of rising prices from erratic suppliers. As one top oil executive put it in London: "The game is too big to be taken advantage of in this way. The economic penalty of imposing sudden price increases is lethal...
...drops in their lab, subjecting V. cholerae to rapid freezing in droplets of water, followed by a quick thaw. Result: the durable bugs not only survived but actually flourished. Indeed the tests indicated that even a relatively small quantity of bacteria from, for example, an aircraft washbasin could be lethal. Says Rondle: "When they reach the ground they can get into milk, soup, or dirty water, and all it requires is two mouthfuls of the fluid they have entered for whoever drinks it to be infected with cholera eight hours later...
...instrument of degradation--is the subject of another 200-page treatise. Suffice it to say that the image has remained unquestioned even, as Wallace points out, by the occasional black woman writer or sociologist. Not only is the image inaccurate, according to the author, it is lethal...
...whether the vacationing Bok decides to reform the ACSR or not, student opinion on Harvard's South Africa related investments, like rooftop snow, becomes more weighty and lethal with the advent of spring...
That, at least, is the premise of Ron Rosenbaum's delightfully bitchy first novel, a tale of lethal venality among the nation's media mandarins. Rosenbaum, 32, is a former Village Voice staff member who protested Editor Clay Felker's 1974 takeover by ripping up his paycheck in the new owner's face (to which Felker is reported to have asked, "Who was that?"). In Murder, a Felkeresque press lord named Walter Foster loses his empire in an unfriendly takeover. Then, worse fate, he is displaced from his regular table at Elaine...