Word: strength
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Bruce Nickell, 52, a state maintenance worker in Auburn, Wash., collapsed and died in June 1986, doctors attributed his death to emphysema. Five days later Susan Snow, another Auburn resident, died after swallowing an Extra- Strength Excedrin capsule that had been laced with cyanide. Nickell's widow Stella told authorities that her husband had taken Excedrin from the same product lot. They concluded that Nickell too was the victim of a cyanide-laced capsule. The two deaths sparked a major criminal investigation and prompted Excedrin manufacturer Bristol-Myers to issue a nationwide recall...
...grateful for a good many things, and one of those things that I'm still grateful for is this country. And I'm grateful for all the strength and support I've been given by so many people around this country and my friends," he said...
RICHARD NIXON returned from political oblivion in 1968 largely on the strength of a slogan. After losing the presidency to John Kennedy in 1960 and the governorship of California two years later, Nixon was written off even by himself. "You won't have Richard Nixon to kick around anymore," he told reporters the morning after his California loss. Yet in 1968 Nixon bounced all the way back after an image makeover by Madison Avenue hucksters. The still strident Nixon successfully was presented to the voters as "The New Dick...
...yearly tasting visits with the same trepidation that restaurateurs have for the annual Le Guide Michelin ratings. Craig Goldwyn, editor of the rival International Wine Review, says Parker has "one of the greatest palates ever to walk the earth," although some writers complain that as a taster he favors strength over subtlety. (Parker, of course, denies it.) His critics also carp that his success is based primarily on a 50-to-100-point rating system for wines that is fast becoming a popular industry standard. Wine merchants across the country know that advertising a vintage with a Parker rating...
...nuclear sufficiency rather than superiority was welcome, especially if it meant that the Soviet Union might be coaxed into retiring some of its most threatening weapons. The bad news was that Moscow still seemed bent on increasing its influence in Europe -- and on using its huge conventional military strength...