Word: poisonous
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...outside the Ukraine and neighboring regions, the cloud of deadly radioactive dust from Unit No. 4 that first spread over Scandinavia and Eastern Europe now crossed oceans and land masses, falling on an ever widening range of food and water supplies in dozens of countries. It also continued to poison the political and diplomatic atmosphere...
...that the area around the city of Kyshtym, believed to be a center of Soviet plutonium production, was contaminated by large amounts of radiation. Though the causes of the disaster remain murky, the effects seem to have been devastating. As winds picked up and scattered the radiation debris, the poison spread across an area larger than New York City. By some accounts, hundreds were killed and thousands afflicted with radiation sickness...
...stocks and bonds and who have felt unfairly battered in the merger and takeover wars that have rocked Wall Street. In their view, many of those battles led to substantial portfolio losses for investors as beleaguered corporate executives paid off would-be takeover artists with greenmail, adopted so-called poison-pill measures to dissuade unwanted suitors by making their firms less attractive targets, or handed themselves fat settlements known as golden parachutes. All too often, argues New York's Goldin, "the shareholders have gotten short shrift...
...required for a significant range of management actions. Among them: issuing stock that would dilute the voting power of existing shares by 20% or more, selling 20% or more of corporate assets to a hostile bidder in exchange for a takeover cease-fire, paying greenmail, or adopting a poison pill. Says Roland Machold, director of New Jersey's treasury division of investment: "We just want to be brought in on the big decisions...
Defense lawyers counter that the poison in the wells came not from their factories but from the nearby Aberjona River, whose banks are lined with industries that have dumped wastes for a century. Lawyer Michael Keating argued that the soil under the Grace Cryovac plant was too dense to allow seepage...