Word: prods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...powerboat, slitting his throat, chopping up his body and feeding the pieces to the sharks. The FBI intervened. Another FBI wiretap overheard Torello telling how he had hung William Jackson, a 350-lb. loan shark, on a meat hook and tortured him with an electric prod. "He was on that thing three days before he croaked," Torello said excitedly. "He was floppin' around...
...that hook. We tossed water on him to give the prod a better charge, and he's screamin...
...biggest fear holding down investment is of a renewal of inflation to double-digit levels. Once a prod to "buy now before the price goes up," inflation has become a brake on capital spending. Says M. Kathryn Eickhoff, vice president of Townsend-Greenspan & Co., Manhattan economic consultants: "An inflationary environment makes calculating rates of return on new investment difficult, even though profits as a whole are likely to rise as inflation advances...
...should hope that Mr. Schorr, through the power of his pen and his vote, will continue, as I will, to prod the correction system into implementing the vast improvements it urgently needs. But let us not be slipshod and misdirected in pointing the accusatory finger; misplaced guilt is no less heinous a crime than its absolution. Mitchell Weiss
...climb aboard the carrousel, the skeptics take it on the lam, running through the innards of the domed city, scrambling madly for the "outside." Generally, however, these runners are recaptured by the Sandmen, who pack nasty ray pistols that look like the 23rd century equivalent of the electric cattle prod...