Word: poison
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attacker on the horizon. The question was who it would be. For weeks the rumors swirled that someone might launch a takeover raid on American Airlines, the largest and most respected U.S. carrier. In August the board of American's parent company, AMR, bolstered its so-called poison-pill defenses by allowing management greater flexibility to issue new stock in order to make a takeover more expensive. The Fort Worth company also signed up the high-powered Wall Street firms Goldman Sachs and Salomon Brothers to develop a full-defense strategy. AMR even asked the New York Stock Exchange...
...Some foreign violence does get substantial U.S. media coverage. But typically this is because American corporate or other interests are directly involved -- as when Union Carbide's poison gas cloud killed 2,233 people in Bhopal, India, in 1984 -- or because humanitarian groups arouse American donors and volunteers, as happened with famines in Ethiopia and Biafra. In general, however, the scales are so tilted that Hurricane Hugo, which killed 51 people, got about as much coverage across the U.S. as the 1985 Mexico City earthquake that claimed 20,000 lives...
When winos name their poison, two of the most called-for brands are Thunderbird and Night Train Express, favored for their high alcohol content (18%) and low price ($2.29 for a 750-ml bottle). The two wines account for less than 3% of total sales for California's giant E. & J. Gallo winery, but they have become an increasing source of controversy for the company. Last week Gallo said that it had voluntarily told its distributors to stop selling the wines to liquor stores in skid-row areas in U.S. cities...
...also told reporters at a briefing that Bush's proposal did not include biological weapons, which some experts consider as deadly as poison...
...down to the equal stocks that Bush proposed, the Soviet would have to make deeper cuts since they are thought to have more chemical weapons on hand. Only the two superpowers acknowledge having poison gas, but Bush said more than 20 nations either possess them or are capable of producing them...