Word: poisonous
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...recalls the Germans' insistence that Jewish corpse carriers must always be "running . . . They are a sporty nation, you see." Itzhak Zuckermann, a member of the Jewish wartime resistance, has resources not of humor but of despair. "If you could lick my heart," he tells Lanzmann, "it would poison...
...left the House right before Newt Gingrich came [as Speaker] because I felt the atmosphere changing over there. It's poison. That poison seems to come back and hit people, and it's heading in his direction...
...already bought 13% of Unocal, the twelfth largest U.S. oil company. The Pickens group is now seeking to acquire a majority of the company's stock by offering to purchase it at $54 a share. But Unocal has countered with a new variation of what Wall Street calls the poison-pill defense, in which a target company assumes a heavy debt burden to make itself unpalatable to corporate raiders. In this instance, Unocal said that if Pickens succeeded in buying 50.1% or more of its shares, the company would offer to buy the rest of the stock...
Wall Streeters expect Pickens to challenge Unocal's move in court and perhaps bid for 100% of the company. Meanwhile, Pickens admits, "we are back at the drawing board." Or maybe at the medicine cabinet, seeking an antidote for a poison pill...
...bulldozers, the fire fighters try to create firebreaks as wide as 100 ft. to isolate the flames. Wearing goggles, hard hats and nonflammable shirts, they may work shifts that last more than 24 hours. Thus far, 228 have been injured on the lines from heat exhaustion, burns and poison...