Word: rat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Edward Marks, 24, a former stockbroker trainee, admitted in an Orlando court last week that he had spiked Contac, Dietac and Teldrin capsule medicines with rat poison in a bid to make money in the stock market. Marks thus became the first person to plead guilty to charges of orchestrating a national drug- tampering scheme...
...woman finds a little dog in Tijuana, and when she discovers that the animal's eyes are runny, takes it to the vet. His diagnosis: "First of all, it's not a dog -- it's a Mexican sewer rat. And second, it's dying...
...cyanide-laced capsules of Tylenol pain reliever, the crime seemed so horrible --so peculiarly horrible--that it was hard to believe it would ever be repeated. And yet it has been, again and again. Last February tainted Tylenol capsules killed a Peekskill, N.Y., woman. A month later traces of rat poison were found in Contac cold capsules and Teldrin allergy medication in Houston and Orlando. Two weeks ago, medical investigators discovered that two residents of Auburn, Wash., had died as a result of swallowing toxic Excedrin capsules. Bristol-Myers quickly pulled Excedrin capsules off the market nationwide, but last week...
...West. (How this is possible on a detective's salary I can't tell you.) A week in the sun does wonders for their wan complexions and sex lives, and they skip back to the windy city with the idea that they should give up the disciplinary rat race and buy a bar down in the Keys with some money that Danny has recently come into thanks to a dearly departed aunt. They give their notice and they've got thirty days to go before a lifetime...
Meanwhile, in the middle of America, thousands of the people Thomas Jefferson envisioned as the mainstay of our country are losing their farms, their homes, and their hope. Those who survive the agricultural rat race are forced to do things like slaughtering dairy cows to drive up the price of milk in order to pay the bank. This also bothered...