Word: poisonous
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...kidnappings and prostitution attributed to overborrowing. In September, a deep-in-hock housewife leaped to her death from a ninth-floor apartment, taking her 13-year-old daughter with her. In August, two young women with heavy credit-card bills killed themselves by drinking a cocktail of alcohol and poison. "I often speak to debtors [who are] on the verge of suicide," says Seok Seung Oak, who runs an online counseling service for credit abusers. "The disgrace they feel is enormous...
Gossip Guy’s throwing caution to the wind and leaving his Glock and Kevlar vest at home for this year’s Harvard-Yale. Get ready to take cover kids, Gossip Guy is firing some .44 caliber lies, poison-tipped innuendos and cop-killer rumors...
...This was thinly veiled racial politics. "You've got a lot of poison in the air," Mayor Kilpatrick told me. "People here are sensitive about white people bossing them around." Kilpatrick insisted he wasn't opposed to more charter schools; his own children go to one. And he was not pleased by the union's role, even though he's a former teacher. "The teachers' union once was a progressive force, but that day has passed," he says. "And it's not coming back until the union realizes that we're going to have to make dramatic changes to improve...
...years ago, but unionists tend to discount the diffuse benefits against those memorable hiccups. In Paisley, the skeptics have their champion. He is easily the most formidable character in Ulster religion and politics. Republicans, he says, want to "freeze us out or push us out or slaughter us or poison the water so we'd drink and die." Not all unionists go along with the high-octane language, but as many as two-thirds agree when Paisley says the power-sharing agreement "totally, utterly and abysmally failed." Paisley's able deputy, Peter Robinson, has reshaped the party's image...
...retaliation and demonstrate fully his cooperation with its resolutions. In fact, he had much to hide as evidenced by his prior willingness to use weapons of mass destruction. In March 1988, Saddam attacked the Kurdish town of Halabja with chemical weapons and cluster bombs, and in August, he dropped poison gas on the village of Birjinni. It does not take much to make the connection between the thousands of victims of his violence and his propensity and capability for future destruction...