Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fuselage. Resembling patches of smudged snow, remnants of the plane's once white fiber-glass insulating material are scattered everywhere. Earlier, crews of olive-clad Laotian soldiers and Americans in T shirts and grimy Levi's had cut a working area roughly the size of a baseball diamond, first by clearing the dense undergrowth and then by dropping to their hands and knees in shoulder-to-shoulder skirmish lines for a preliminary search of the area. Among the items unearthed were bits of human bones, a scattering of teeth and what the crews will describe only as "some personal effects...
...them (we won't say where) for delivery to one of those hotshot sheiks who in the past decade have turned parts of L.A. into a Little Araby. As for ordinary Ed, he will risk death, betrayal and another 24 hours of sleeplessness because he is drawn to this diamond-hard Circe who confides, "I'm one of the bad guys...
...green of a baseball diamond, not the artificial kneetearing, crazy-bounce-inspiring turf of a concrete stadium but the real grass of a real park...
...beginning. "It would never have worked," said Alan Edgar, an energy analyst for the securities firm of Schneider, Bernet & Hickman in Dallas. "Two ugly ducklings just won't make a swan." Concurred E.F. Hutton's William Craig: "It looked like a terrible deal for Occidental." He pointed out that Diamond Shamrock's principal oil holdings, which are in Indonesia, are being rapidly depleted...
...days following the cancellation of the merger, Occidental shares regained most of their losses. But there can be no doubt that Bricker's stock has fallen. Said one executive who took part in the negotiations: "The way things turned out makes Diamond management look a little erratic." Furthermore, by considering such an arrangement, Bricker posted notice that Diamond Shamrock is for sale. Bricker insisted last week that his company is still "an aggressive pursuer" seeking to acquire another oil company. But in the volatile oil game, he is a hunter who could just end up being bagged...