Word: poison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scientists determined that a second bottle of Tylenol contained the same poison that had killed a 23-year-old woman last weekend--an indication, authorities said, that the same hands were involved in both tamperings...
...puffer fish is a delicacy in Japan, where it is known as fugu. Licensed chefs remove enough poison to make the fish nonlethal, yet leave enough to give a spine-tingling sensation, prickling of the tongue and lips, and a feeling of euphoria...
Texaco switched from offense to defense as Casseb's ruling approached. The company announced last week that it had adopted a so-called poison-pill provision to ward off raiders who might be tempted to try a takeover in view of the dip in Texaco stock. And one hour before going to court on Tuesday, Texaco offered to sell Pennzoil at 1984 prices the 1 billion bbl. of oil and gas reserves that it had originally wanted to buy from Getty. Liedtke called the offer "silly...
...decades the war against cancer has been waged with three often brutal weapons, the so-called cut, burn and poison methods of rooting out tumors: surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. But slowly, in laboratories and medical centers around the world, a fourth approach has been evolving. The idea: rallying the body's own immunological forces to destroy malignant cells. Last week scientists at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., revealed some of the most promising results to date in the use of this new category called immunotherapy. In an unusual "special report," published in the New England Journal of Medicine...
...give us," McClintic writes, "but it says in James, 'The tongue is a very unruly member.' (A more expansive thought along that track from the King James version of the Bible is 'but the tongue no man can tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.') I abused this gift in a world of loose morals and loose living. I could stimulate or excite other men into becoming part of different programs or buying various products. When it came to communicating the importance of an idea or product, I felt I had no peers...