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...Nelson Bunker Hunt...
...rate they are going, the Hunt brothers of Texas may lose so much of their fortune that they will be able to count what remains at the kitchen table. Just eight years ago, Nelson Bunker, 62, William Herbert, 59, and Lamar, 56 -- heirs of the legendary Oilman H.L. Hunt -- commanded a combined net worth of more than $5 billion. Since then their fortune has plummeted to $1 billion or less, and it could keep right on shrinking until they are no longer "big rich," as Texans refer to the truly wealthy. The brothers are fighting a complex and heated battle...
Since February, Lamar and his brothers Nelson Bunker and William Herbert Hunt (estimated combined fortune: $1.2 billion) have been defendants in a New York lawsuit in which Peru-owned Minpeco SA alleges that the Hunts' manipulation of the silver markets caused the 1980 crash in the price of that precious metal. The Hunts pleaded innocent, saying that silver's tumble cost them $1.1 billion...
...predicted that the Scot Sandy Lyle would win. Lyle was hot, and it was Floyd's experience that even the cold shots of a warm player bounce out of the creeks and sit up in the rough. Needing a birdie on the final hole, Lyle drove into a fairway bunker, fell into an ideal lie, struck a perfect shot...
Greatest Comeback Against: February 27, St. Lawrence scored three goals in the last two minutes. Harvard, however, had built itself a three-goal bunker and was hiding out during the bombing raid...