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...fight the rodents, the ancients used cats. Modern societies have tried potent poisons like strychnine and zinc phosphide. Trouble is, they not only kill rats but friendly animals and unwary human beings as well. In 1947, a better weapon appeared: an anticoagulant called warfarin. In small doses, it does not harm large animals. But when a rat swallowed it, it caused internal bleeding and death, usually within five days. For about 25 years, man felt he had the rat on the run. No more. British health authorities have discovered that brown "house" rats (Rattus norvegicus) in Wales and black "ship...
Narduzzi has apparently found effective combination, as the Elis have allowed only 20 points in the last two games, with an outstanding performance against potent Princeton...
...this takes us from our "cheap shots" theme. Why was Crouthamel's accusation potent? Basically, because he hit the nail on the head. Football players may not be trained to give "cheap shots", but they do. Whether they are good or bad players, they do. Take a close look at the line play at the next football game. If you don't see a little late-hitting or low-belting on every play, you're not looking close enough...
...managed, by an adroit mixture of dash and obsequence, to gain both. As Lyndon B. Johnson's Wolsey for more than 30 years and a three-term Democratic Governor of Texas, he learned well the means of acquiring and using political power. Now he is one of the most potent and magnetic personalities in Richard Nixon's Washington, the chief designer of Phase I, the prime enforcer of Phase II, and by most accounts the strongest Treasury Secretary since George Humphrey of the Eisenhower...
...ways, for instance as softeners in plastics, paints and rubber, as additives in printing inks and papers. Although they are now used primarily as agents in heat exchangers, there is growing evidence that alarming quantities of PCBs have found their way into living organisms and that they pose a potent new threat to the environment...