Word: poison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the Government banned the use of poison traps eight years ago, Wyoming Wool Grower John Lye began losing about 10% of his sheep to coyotes. When he tried shooting them, they started attacking at night. Says Lye: "They have an uncanny instinct for trouble." Then he hit upon an exotic ploy. Lye got three llamas, those feisty beasts with keen eyesight, fearsome spit, a mean kick-and a passable resemblance to sheep. At first the coyotes were buffaloed. Every time they came down for a hit the llamas would spit, then stomp and slash with their front hooves...
...planning to return soon to Idaho, will take home mixed memories: "I'm not anti-Washington. I enjoy it. But you have games going on all the time with these people. There are bureaucrats and there are 'powercrats.' I call the two or three percent who poison the well 'powercrats...
Many fell amidst the poison-tipped arrows launched by New Right hit squads, such as the National Conservative Political Action Committee...
...Meghan Duffy) the usherette as she comes on to the back row while offering her buttered popcorn--recalls "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (Michael Rennie was ill"), "Day of the Triffids" (as in, "And I really got hot when I saw Janet Scott fight a triffid that spits poison and kills") and others, encapsulating this '70's retelling of Dr. Frankenstein...
Ullman has been hurt by making infrequent visits to his district in 1978 and 1979. He has owned no home in Oregon for 21 months, but is buying a condominium in Bend. He has also been damaged by advocating a national value-added tax, which is political poison in Oregon, where a sales tax has been rejected repeatedly in referendums. Insists Ullman: "I've totally abandoned...