Word: poisonous
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...real value undermined by budget and trade deficits, has continued to attract more sellers than buyers. Central banks have spent something like $90 billion this year buying greenbacks to prop up the price. Worse, the Federal Reserve was forced into the high-interest-rate policy that proved to be poison to world stock markets. And still the Louvre values could not be sustained. ( Last week the dollar fell to new lows against the West German mark and Japanese yen; foreign governments seemed willing to buy only enough U.S. currency to cushion, not stop, the decline...
...bout with the Penn poison was brief and painful. Like the 130 football fans, I could not sleep the night after the Penn-Cornell game. And it wasn't because I was excitedly replaying the events of the 17-13 Big Red upset...
...recanted reports of the yellow rain, and the team found that the supposed symptoms caused by the toxin -- vomiting, skin irritation and dizziness -- were more likely the effects of smoke inhalation and battle fatigue. Moreover, the authors say, private examination of the yellowish substance on leaf samples determined the "poison" was composed almost entirely of pollen. The suspected source of the yellow rain: swarms of honeybees that dropped the pollen from overhead...
...Dorset, England (where he was known to classmates as "Mac"), Mfanasibili charged that several members of the royal house had plotted to assassinate their future King. The weapon of choice, according to Mfanasibili, was a witch doctor, who was sent to England to hunt down the prince and poison him. As a result of Mfanasibili's charges, several princes loyal to the ousted Queen regent were detained without trial, as were a handful of ranking Swazi officials, including police and army chiefs...
...week WCPO reported that Harvey admitted to police he killed 34 people: 23 patients at Drake, five at a local Veterans Administration hospital where he used to work, and six others. Most were described as elderly and ailing. His methods, according to the report, ranged from cyanide, arsenic, rat poison or cleaning fluid to suffocation with a plastic bag or pillow. Police have refused to comment on the case, pending completion of the grand jury investigation...