Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Extra-Strength Tylenol from what he said was a previously unopened bottle purchased a week earlier by his mother. Twelve hours later, the stenographer, daughter of a New York State trooper, was found dead of what was later diagnosed as acute cyanide poisoning. Her death touched off a new scare, reminiscent of the still unsolved Tylenol panic of 1982, in which seven people in the Chicago area died after taking tainted capsules. Once again the capsule form of the leading nonprescription pain-relief medicine in the U.S. was stripped from store shelves across the nation as Tylenol's manufacturer, Johnson...
...Contorno. They testified in December in New York City at the so- called pizza-connection trial, where 22 defendants are charged with distributing Sicilian heroin through a chain of U.S. pizza outlets. Both are expected to make court appearances in Sicily in the spring, though Contorno gave prosecutors a scare last week by suddenly threatening not to. Officials see Contorno's move as a ploy to get better treatment and more security. Nonetheless, they are visibly concerned. Contorno's statements helped indict 160 defendants...
...opening day of play at the National Indoor Team Championships, held at the Louisville Tennis Club in Louisville, Kentucky, Harvard gave Stanford--the top collegiate squad in the country--a scare before falling, 5-4, to the Cardinal...
Even before the polls opened at 7 a.m., both sides reported fraud and harassment. There were stories of men brandishing rifles and firing in the air to scare waiting voters, stolen ballot boxes, and votes being bought for as little...
...bombs and flares near the camp, lighting up the sky for miles around. The brilliant display, which the Eritreans call the "Christmas tree," fell harmlessly into the mountains. But ERA workers report that the night raids frighten refugees for miles around. "What the Ethiopians want," says one, "is to scare our people into leaving these camps and force them to cross into Sudan or into government- controlled camps...