Word: nitroglycerin
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...combination is ideal for blowing rock out of quarries, mining rich veins of ore and laying roads. It's ideal not only because of its destructive potential but also for its relative safety. So stable that it cannot explode spontaneously, ANFO is considerably safer than dynamite, which contains volatile nitroglycerin. You can light a match to ANFO, jump up and down on it, even shoot a bullet at it, but it isn't likely to blow up. To unleash the power of ANFO, demolition workers must use a device called a detonator-which contains a small amount of a highly...
Last month prosecutors were forced to discard most of their evidence against the six, now 42 to 60. Tests that purported to show nitroglycerin traces on the hands of two of the men were proved to be unreliable. And confessions by four defendants, which they said had been coerced, were put into question when it was learned that police had doctored their notes of interviews with the accused...
...ambulance St. Andrew turned on oxygen, spritzed nitroglycerin under McKinney's tongue to relieve the hypertension and potential heart problems, and briefed a hospital over the phone. He warned McKinney to be ready for "a stick," then put in the IV needle to administer the diuretic drug Lasix, which dilates blood vessels. McKinney rallied as his pressure slipped down to 164 over 120. "I was scared," he admitted hoarsely. "I didn't think I'd make...
...programs that in some cases amount to handouts for the well-off, including Social Security and agricultural subsidies. In his 1987 book, Reagan and the Economy, Boskin wrote, "Welfare for the wealthy simply can no longer be afforded." But he realizes that middle-class entitlement programs are political nitroglycerin, and he has no intention of embarrassing Bush by launching a public crusade...
...unlikely combination of Ronald Reagan and Muammar Gaddafi resembles nitroglycerin: it can produce an explosion at the slightest jolt. Last week, for the fourth time since 1981, just such a blowup took place in the Mediterranean skies off Tobruk, where a shootout that could have been taken right from the movie Top Gun ended in the downing of two Libyan jets by American pilots...