Word: poisoner
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Forests, however, are just one item in Siberia's bulging portfolio of natural resources. Soviet exploitation managed to poison and degrade 35,000 sq. mi. of the vast republic, but that only scratched the surface of its mineral wealth. Bob Logan, an economist at the University of Alaska, has made trips to Yakutia to study the region's economic prospects, which he describes as "staggering." As much as 20% of the territory is known to have oil and gas deposits that could make it the Saudi Arabia of the north. The area is one of the world's leading sources...
...sympathy with those who insist, between smoke rings, that denying them their prerogative to drag constitutes an infringement on their fundamental rights. I will hear no more talmudic debates on whether the founders of this nation meant to ensure the ability of each and every last citizen to poison themselves as they...
Carol is "allergic to the 20th century," and Safe tells of her attempts to understand and conquer her condition at Wrenwood, a "chemical-free zone" in New Mexico. Writer-director Todd Haynes, who made the importantly weird short film Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story and Poison, a minimalist epic of sex and longing in the age of aids, again has decay and estrangement in mind. This scarily confident, beautifully acted study is gnomic and anomic, like a TV disease movie made in an alternate universe. And in Moore's pretty, aggrieved face, Haynes finds the ideal vessel for his concerns...
...desktop-computing industry. In an unprecedented step for Big Blue, Gerstner launched a hostile bid to acquire Lotus for $3.3 billion, or $60 a share, more than twice the price at which the stock had been trading. At the same time, IBM went to court to challenge a Lotus "poison pill" that would make a takeover prohibitively expensive and appealed to Lotus shareholders to oust the firm's board of directors. "Call this IBM unleashed," says Marc Schulman, president of Technology Strategies Group, a Connecticut firm that consults with computer companies. "The whole mind-set of the company has changed...
...plans to pay for the acquisition out of its $10 billion cash holdings and has started legal action to prevent Lotus directors from using a "poison pill" strategy to block the takeover...