Word: poisonous
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...estimated 900,000 Iranians, many of them not yet teenagers, beyond that frontier. But in August 1988, the loss of key positions forced Tehran to accept a United Nations-sponsored cease-fire in the eight- year war. It was, said the Ayatullah, a decision "more deadly than drinking poison...
...been placed in charge of agriculture when "he was absolutely ignorant of this sphere and had failed with ideology." Others called for a review of the events in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi last April, when soldiers and riot squads attacked demonstrators with shovels and, it is alleged, with poison gas, killing 20. The probing questions continued until the new First Vice President and nonvoting Politburo member, Anatoli Lukyanov, was moved to read out three hitherto secret telegrams sent from the Georgian party leadership, absolving the Kremlin of any direct responsibility...
...these wonderful things," says Marion E. Schoon, head of Widener's reference division, of the collection, known as the "X Vault" or "poison cage...
...dispelled minutes into the opening session, when a Latvian delegate strode uninvited to the podium. "I ask you to honor the memory of those who died in Tbilisi," urged the gray-bearded man, referring to the 20 demonstrators killed in the Georgian capital in April, some reportedly with poison gas, during clashes with army troops. That request, which prompted the delegates to rise for a moment of silence, was not merely unrehearsed, it was an explicit act of defiance that went against Gorbachev's wish that no ethnic group be singled out for sympathy...
Also, the legislation would make it easier for corporations to set up shareholder rights plans, or "poison pill" defenses, which boost the price of a takeover by giving shareholders an automatic right to buy additional shares...