Word: poisonous
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...vote may have meant that students at Brown University were anti-Bomb or, possibly, that they were pro-poison. By a tally of 1,044 to 687, collegians at the elite Ivy League campus in Providence called on the school administration to stockpile cyanide pills for use in the event of nuclear war. To critics who called the vote preposterous, Jason Salzman, a sponsor of the referendum, had a ready reply: "The nuclear arms race is killing us, and we succeeded in making a lot of people think about...
...lawyers--Joseph Flom of New York's Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Martin Lipton of New York's Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz--are jousting in a Delaware court over the legality of the "poison pill" corporate take-over defense...
...article in the June 1984 Review, a Harvard law student defended the "poison pill" practice. Ironically, the student, whom the Review refuses to name, worked as a summer associate at Wachtell, Lipton, which is defending the practice in court...
...with an umbrella. The encounter looked as harmless as the weather; in fact, it was to recall the more lurid adventures of 007. For the foreigner was Bulgarian Georgi Markov, the stranger was a hired assassin, and the umbrella tip held a pellet loaded with ricin, a deadly poison. The notorious "umbrella murder" occurred because of the information contained in this chilling memoir, written after the author's defection...
...hazardous. As yet, divers taking daily readings of the water have not detected any signs of leaking radioactivity. More worrisome is the uranium's volatility: should it mix with water, it would be transformed chemically into an acid that could easily explode. Loose in the sea, it could poison any marine life near by. Warns Shoja Etamad, a nuclear engineer based in Paris: "No one really knows what happens when you deal with quantities on this scale...