Word: feds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...anti-Hugel faction at the CIA, sometimes using members of an "old boy" network of former agents, pushed for a quick Casey kill. It fed Goldwater the dubious information that Casey had emerged from Multiponics' bankruptcy in 1971 with a profit of some $750,000; he insisted he had lost almost his entire $145,000 investment. The same CIA sources apparently spread a false report that Casey and Hugel had planned a covert operation aimed at the "ultimate" removal of Libya's Strongman Muammar Gadaffi from power. Misinformation was leaked to Newsweek that the House Intelligence Committee...
Shayne's ponds are dug on the coastal flatlands, shored by timbering and fed by a canal. The square pools produce 800 lbs. per acre at each harvest, and he gets three harvests a year, a far higher yield than most of his fellow shrimp farmers, who average fewer than two harvests of approximately 300 to 400 lbs. each. In a laboratory up the coast from Shayne's ponds, experts work on secret methods for getting shrimp to produce more eggs; in another plant machines compact food similar to cattle feed so that it stays in one piece...
While declining to predict a national trend or movement. Maass said the new federal bill and Proposition 2 1 2, the state tax-cutting measure, are "certainly similar," and said, "I think people were just fed up with the Democratic programs...
...Connor told TIME last week. But she loved her summers on the ranch, where she had plenty of time to read. A dog-eared Book of Knowledge encyclopedia, copies of the National Geographic Magazine and her father's assorted volumes from the Book-of-the-Month Club fed her curiosity. By the age often, she could drive both a truck and a tractor. "I didn't do all the things boys did, but I fixed windmills and repaired fences." Recalls her girlhood friend and cousin, Flournoy Manzo: "We played with dolls, but we knew what to do with...
...monster population has taken a perilous tailspin. Only one winged geezer remains, living quietly for the most part with a litter of dragon cubs. Understandably, even one fire-breathing creature has the locals a little unnerved, especially since once a month, their ruler picks a young maiden to be fed to the beast. Thus the search for a savior begins, setting up the required battle of good versus evil...