Word: poison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yallop offers no hard evidence to prove his poison plot. The motives ascribed to some of Yallop's "suspects" seem illogical, if not incredible. After his election, John Paul I reconfirmed all Vatican officials for five years, including Villot and Marcinkus. Sindona, who is serving a 25-year jail term in a New York prison for fraud, and Calvi, who was found hanging from a London bridge in 1982, had dire financial problems, but none that a papal murder would alleviate. News about Gelli's P-2 lodge did help topple the Italian government of Prime Minister Arnaldo...
Though the poisoning of a Pope may seem farfetched today, legend has it that at least one Pope-Alexander VI-died of poisoning, from a fatal potion that was intended for some Cardinals. That was in 1503, and the rumors have not let up yet. Veteran Vatican observers recall the stories of how Pope Pius X died of poisoning in 1914. Then there were the whispers about how poison killed Leo XIII in 1903, Pius VIII...
...goal of the SEC recommendations is the elimination of defensive tactics that preserve the jobs of incumbent management but lessen the value of the company to shareholders. Such stratagems can include buying back company stock and issuing "poison pills," like preferred stock, which dilute the value of other outstanding shares. The Carter Hawley Hale department store chain has used both techniques in fending off a takeover attempt by The Limited. So far, its tactics have succeeded. The Limited Chairman Leslie Wexner said last week that his firm's tender offer will not be extended, though he hopes to make...
...More immediately, the Forest Service is testing a method for quickly showing if a person is sensitive to the poison ivy family. In the test, also developed at U.C.S.F., a small drop of the plant's poisonous chemical, urushiol, is placed on the arm, and the reaction is monitored...
...anal itching. Last year, researchers found a way to neutralize the urushiol molecules that cause the itching. Dr. William Epstein, who heads the U.C.S.F. research team, told a meeting of dermatologists in Toronto last week that the new vaccine could be on the market in time for the 1986 poison ivy season...