Word: poisonous
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...Smith had pleaded no contest to involuntary manslaughter, as well as to administering and furnishing controlled substances. While conceding that Belushi was partly responsible for his own death because of his "drug-infested life," Judge David Horowitz ruled that Smith must be punished for "being the source of that poison...
Each of America's successive wars on drugs has brought a shift of tactical emphasis and new sets of priorities for deploying resources. Richard Nixon, for example, targeted sites abroad, putting pressure on foreign countries like Turkey and Mexico to stop cultivating the seeds of poison. The new emphasis is on the war within. President Reagan is urging that employees take urine tests and that educational programs be initiated to discourage demand. Cities like New York, Boston and Miami are launching highly visible law-enforcement efforts. Here is a look at the prospects and difficulties faced on five different fronts...
Edward Marks, 24, a former stockbroker trainee, admitted in an Orlando court last week that he had spiked Contac, Dietac and Teldrin capsule medicines with rat poison in a bid to make money in the stock market. Marks thus became the first person to plead guilty to charges of orchestrating a national drug- tampering scheme...
...lingering radioactive wastes. The O-Zone itself is the result of a nuclear-dump accident in the Ozarks, "a place that had once been wooded and parklike and settled, and was now a prohibited area, dangerous and empty, with burst-open roads and fallen bridges and a reputation for poison...
...improvement but of worsening relations. How can any efforts we make to improve relations have a chance? U.S. support for anti-Ethiopian elements might lead to trouble for us, to individual sacrifice, but will not change our direction. The heritage of such a U.S. policy will be only to poison and embitter coming generations of Ethiopians. Parties come and go, but peoples and countries will always be there...