• Unfortunately, the American body politic is currently under assault as well from a poisonous offering.

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  • The result is a poisonous mix that means Zynga has to hemorrhage money just to tread water.

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  • Labour productivity has soared, but the result could be a poisonous combination of deep recession followed by jobless recovery.

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  • Does he believe the last year has been marked by a poisonous tone, or has there been any improvement?

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  • Pulsutilla, another ingredient in ColdCalm, is a poisonous plant that produces toxins that slow the heart and can cause convulsions.

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  • The FDA was founded after a 1937 incident in which a poisonous medicine killed 107 people, most of them children.

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  • In such a poisonous atmosphere the Europeans and Americans are trying to persuade the Bosnians to agree to modest constitutional changes.

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  • Ravinder Kaur, 34, was charged with administering a poisonous or noxious substance and stood trial for three weeks at Blackfriars Crown Court.

    BBC: 'Mercury coffee' case accused to face retrial

  • The students found a poisonous snake once, but it was already dead.

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  • The two companies will develop the Bab field, a potentially tricky project because it contains so-called sour gas, a poisonous and foul smelling product.

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  • "Kwame's death was but a part of a poisonous and senseless feud between two rival gangs of youths in south London, " Mr Aylett told the court.

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  • Similarly, when an octopus changes skin color in self-defense, such as by mimicking a poisonous sea snake, the decision may come not from central command but from the skin itself.

    WSJ: The Brains of the Animal Kingdom

  • That is a poisonous idea supported by questionable evidence.

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  • He is rational about the radiation risks to himself, but fears his daughter growing up in such a potentially poisonous environment.

    ECONOMIST: A spreading cloud of economic and human costs

  • Morale was low and crime was high. 10.09.41 Constance Rice So when Bratton came in, he came in at a volatile poisonous, toxic time.

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  • As a uniquely poisonous cocktail, mixing fears of rising rates with high leverage and silly valuations, the market for such bonds is hard to beat.

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  • There's a real poisonous atmosphere in Mexico right now.

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  • Ms. GLADWELL OTIENO (Executive Director, Africa Centre for Open Governance): I would say that you can damage a lot with poisonous politics but obviously, you also have a situation of economic inequity, you have a very, very small class in Kenya that's own a large part of the economy.

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  • One of the worst environmental accidents so far, at the Union Carbide factory in India where thousands of people were killed by a leak of poisonous gas in 1984, made companies everywhere think again about how to manage crises on such a scale.

    ECONOMIST: Idea

  • Take the Aral Sea in Central Asia, now a shrunken, poisonous cesspool of pesticide residues and toxic chemicals that are causing an explosion of chronic bronchitis, cancer, typhoid and hepatitis, kidney and liver disease.

    FORBES: The Story Of Eau

  • Obama has a very difficult, if not poisonous, relationship with Prime Minister Netanyahu and has a hard time emoting on Israel.

    CNN: Will Israel trip help Romney?

  • One theory is that sensitivity to bitter flavor could have evolved as a protective mechanism against poisonous plants.

    WSJ: People Who Taste Too Much

  • It is genetically engineered to produce a particular strain of Bt, a substance that is poisonous to some insects.

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  • Though their size would make them an easy mouthful for a shark or a grouper, their poisonous spines mean they are more or less invulnerable.

    ECONOMIST: A heartening tale of business and the environment

  • " By the early 20th century Sherwin was making paint with lead-based pigment, even after the company published an article in 1904 warning that "white lead is poisonous in a large degree, both for the workmen and for the inhabitants of a house painted with white lead colors.

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  • Most of them have had but a single gene tweaked, either to make them poisonous to pestilential insects or resistant to a particular herbicide so that it can be used freely.

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  • Then, in July 1992, a deadly red tide of poisonous plankton struck the bay.

    CNN: ASIANOW - TIME Asia

  • Ms. OTIENO: So there are deep underlying reasons but poisonous politics plays a role because our politicians views ethnic differences to buttress their claims to power.

    NPR: Tracing the Roots of Ethnic Violence in Kenya

  • Intel Chairman Craig Barrett once compared Intel's flagship x86 microprocessors to a creosote bush, a desert plant that drips poisonous oil, killing off any nearby vegetation.

    FORBES: Gone In A Flash

  • Deep underneath your feet is a hellish stone soup, kept hot by a torrent of radiation from poisonous isotopes of uranium, thorium and potassium in the earth's superheated mantle.

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