Word: fontes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Heritage Foundation, a private think-tank which has been a font of ideas for the administration, argues that the controversial idea "would land to a flood of litigation, massive wage redistribution, a distortion of free market principles and, ultimately, widespread job dislocation...
...Republicans who won bids to a second term, both as expected, were Indiana's Robert D. Orr, 66, and New Hampshire's John H. Sununu, 45. In Delaware, retiring Pierre S. du Font's G.O.P. seat passed to a protege, Lieutenant Governor Michael N. Castle, 45. The grandee of West Virginia politics, two-term Governor Arch A. Moore, 61, hammered out a third victory, following an eight-year hiatus filled by Democrat Jay Rockefeller. Democrats were also replaced by Republicans in Utah, where House Speaker Norman H. Bangerter, 51, coasted to victory, and in North Carolina, where...
...unexpectedly entered the picture and seemed likely to emerge the winner by offering to buy up Getty Oil for about $9.9 billion. The deal, subject to stockholder approval and a green light from Justice Department antitrust lawyers, could be the largest takeover in U.S. history (previous record holder: Du Font's acquisition of Conoco in 1981 for $7.2 billion...
...been the font of their prosperity for decades, but now the wealthy sheikdoms of the Persian Gulf are almost literally swimming in the gooey, black liquid. Since March, three damaged Iranian wells have been spewing some 7,000 bbl. a day of crude into the waters of the gulf, producing an oil slick that is roughly the size of New Jersey and that may rank as the second largest in history.* Much of the menacing sludge rests just below the surface of the gulf's usually crystalline waters, but it is betrayed by a bluish sheen that...
TUCSON, Arts.--Gill Morgan dropped a 22-font birdie put on the second extra hole and defeated Lanny Wadkins and Curtis Strange in a sudden-death playoff Sunday for the title in the Joe Garagiola-Tucson Open, the kickoff event on the PGA Tour...