Word: poisoner
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...high rates for ten years or more. Industries that depend heavily on credit, particularly home building and auto sales, have been staggering. Lone Star Industries, the country's largest cement producer, last week took out full-page newspaper ads featuring a large skull and crossbones and the warning POISON...
...average blue-collar worker is about 75%). In addition to its Horatio Alger work habits, it is immune to government and union regulations on heat, fumes, noise, radiation and other safety hazards. The robot has no affections or passions. If you prick it, it does not bleed. If you poison it, it does...
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...
...microbes but customarily suffer no harm. The spores remain dormant in the adult intestine. For as yet unknown reasons, the intestines of some babies aged one to six months provide a hospitable environment for the spores, permitting them to germinate and make their deadly toxin. It is a nerve poison that produces an array of symptoms including constipation, lethargy, poor feeding, weak crying and general floppiness. More than 170 cases of infant botulism have been officially reported worldwide since 1976, but the count is probably far too low. Many physicians are still unfamiliar with the illness, and no simple diagnostic...
...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...