Word: poison
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...failed half degraded into the acid populism that is the stock-in-trade of Pat Buchanan. It plays well in iconoclastic New Hampshire, and with farmers and union men, but if a party aspires to one day leave the fringe in the cause of reform, it is a poison pill. Buchanan is no reformer; he is a radical by convenience and a scavenger by nature. Why would he change the system that has paid him the salary of the limelight ? on TV and in bookstores ? as a rabble-rouser for hire? Besides, times are too good for an agrarian uprising...
...Windmill Turns," starring John "Don Quixote" McCain. Campaign finance reform?s champions in the House, Christopher Shays (R-Conn.) and Marty Meehan (D-Mass.), have done their part again after getting their soft-money ban past an unfriendly Republican leadership on Tuesday night. After running a gauntlet of poison-pill amendments designed by GOP bigwigs to erode its support ? and picking up one, courtesy of upstate New York Republican John Sweeney, that would make Hillary reimburse us for riding Air Force One to campaign stops ? the bill sailed through by a 252-to-177 vote. Fifty-four Republicans split from...
...controversy that GM technology is causing, the fact is that biotech companies have succeeded in dreaming up some extraordinary plants. Monsanto, which produces the hugely popular herbicide Roundup, has made just as big a hit with its line of genetically modified crops that are immune to the Roundup poison--thanks to a gene that company scientists tweezed out of the common petunia and knitted into their food plants. Other GM crops have been designed to include a few scraps of dna from a common bacterium, rendering the plants toxic to leaf-chewing insects but not to humans...
...knowing that giving up the identities of pseudonymous SFM4M visitors would have been PR poison for a sizable chunk of its customers, declined to lift its curtain of privacy for the prying eyes of concerned officials. So Klausner got San Francisco-based PlanetOut, an online service for gays, lesbians and bisexuals, to help him pepper SFM4M with warning messages about avoiding the disease (condoms, monogamy and penicillin?). Syphilis is easily treated if caught early, but if left alone, it causes chancres and lesions and eventually leads to insanity and death ? all the while increasing vulnerability to other STDs, most notably...
Cuba vs. America: Fidel Castro filed a $181 billion suit charging the U.S. with "bloody acts" against Cuba, including CIA attempts to poison his milk shakes...