Word: rat
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...JetBlue is emblematic of a new model of calamity, one that is instantly visible, viral and capable of inflicting business-busting damage. And one that demands a fresh kind of crisis-management approach. Will Yum! Brands, owner of KFC and Taco Bell, never cease to see clips of a rat-infested New York City store on YouTube? "Saying you're sorry might be O.K. for a love-story script, but it's not enough to assure consumers that they should continue using your product," says Mike Sitrick, who has advised such p.r.-challenged celebrities as Rush Limbaugh, Tommy...
...several animals. But Goldstein says excessive vitamin D is unlikely, since blood tests would show high calcium levels, which haven't been found. Says an FDA spokesman: "Our analysis of the premix indicates that vitamin levels were appropriate." Other theories floated to explain the bizarre deaths are aminopterin, or rat poison, which would cause the kind of kidney damage seen. An Albany lab found the substance in two pet food samples of canned foods, but the FDA has ruled these out because no other lab has been able to confirm the results...
DAWN MAJERCZYK, of Chicago, who filed a class action after her cat Phoenix died of kidney failure from eating food contaminated with rat poison; at least 15 other cats and dogs died...
...norm that is the river—one never hears of being “riverred.” By making the Quad into the Other, river house residents project their own insecurities about house life onto it. For example: “My house is made up of rat-infested walk-through doubles and has no sense of community, but at least it’s not in the Quad...
Should the city fail to take action, Van Beuzekom told the council she would return and “bring my hobby with me, which is rat-catching.” Van Beuzekom said this would involve a “rat trap” with “a live rat inside, to show you they do indeed exist...