Word: poisonous
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...Young, who was one of King's aides. The Atlanta team still distrusts Jackson, though they are unwilling to criticize him publicly. Says one of Jesse's colleagues who knows the story of the assassination: "They have no idea how much it haunts him. It's a drop of poison in his glass." Jackson shrugs off the animosity and explains it away with a religious reference. "Everybody wanted a piece of the cloth," he says...
...Responding to Pickens' move, the Boeing board last week adopted a so-called poison-pill defense, which would increase the amount of outstanding Boeing stock and thus effectively dilute the value of the shares a raider might own. Boeing management also huddled with Washington State's political leaders to discuss the possibility that the legislature might adopt emergency anti- takeover laws, as Minnesota and North Carolina did recently when local companies were pursued by outsiders. In Washington State, any threat to Boeing (total employment: 121,500) raises deep emotions. Moreover, Air Force Secretary Edward Aldridge said last week that...
...living in Britain. "Soviet leaders have not changed their view of the world." Helmut Sonnenfeldt, a policymaker during the period of detente who is now at the Brookings Institution, says that Moscow's new thinking is merely "old- fashioned thinking with a jazzed up vocabulary. It's old poison in new bottles...
...next day, when Markowski returned to the center to sell more blood, he was arrested and charged with attempted murder. Los Angeles County District Attorney Ira Reiner calls Markowski's actions "the moral equivalent of the person who put poison in Tylenol." Reiner admits it will be difficult to prove Markowski intended to kill, but claims that the defendant's statements prove he acted "maliciously." "I know that AIDS can kill," Reiner quoted Markowski as saying, "but I was so hard up for money that I didn't give a damn...
...unfolds. A woman who is six months pregnant undergoes an abortion. Her decision to end the pregnancy so late most likely involves some kind of tragedy: the child she is carrying is seriously defective or perhaps she has learned that she has cancer and requires immediate treatment that would poison her child. Whatever the reason, the aborted fetus is just a few weeks younger than the preemie staffers are furiously working to save...