Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passengers, boarding Le Mistral II in Port Isabel, Texas, the only luggage needed is their bankroll. Le Mistral embarks on four-to-six-hour cruises into the Gulf of Mexico, where the ship eludes the Texas ban on casino gambling. When the vessel enters international waters, the crew opens the ship's gaming tables and slot machines. Since its maiden voyage in November, it has been attracting 250 to 300 customers a trip...
...claims to own companies in Switzerland, Greece, the Middle East and Thailand, as well as ten or 15 firms in England. "There's many people behind me," he says expansively. "If I phone now for $40 million, tomorrow I see the $40 million in my pocket. From friends -- Saudi, gulf, Iraqi. That's all like a consortium. I am a front man." He is also a man gifted in the ways of global dealmaking, Swiss bank accounts and multimillion-dollar real estate enterprises in a number of countries, including...
Donald Gilman, the National Weather Service's long-range forecaster, is cautiously hoping that the tropical Pacific's El Nino and the North American jet stream will keep behaving, so that eventually rainstorms will be lured up from the Gulf to drench the croplands. Kentucky and Tennessee last week got a bit of that action. But many more downpours are needed. Iowa's rich loam has only a third of the usual subsoil moisture. Hydrologists have warned New York that if reservoirs do not fill soon, the city could have water shortages this summer. With California reservoirs at 42% capacity...
...spoken cop arrests are usually armed, and some take the news badly: at different times, men have tried to choke or shoot the agent. And so Leach is cautious as he pulls his rented Taurus into the driveway of the Friermood hunting lodge in the midst of Texas' vast Gulf Coast wetlands one clear morning this winter. Only two weeks earlier, Leach went duck hunting with a guide from the Friermood lodge, trading lies, and now he is returning as part of a 100-agent task force that will arrest 23 hunting guides and lodge owners scattered along the Texas...
...that the Gulf station is down, the University should reassess its priorities, weighing the need for new hotel space with the problems it might entail. With the addition of even a "limited service" hotel on the Gulf station site, Harvard Square might become a nicer place to visit, but you certainly wouldn't want to live there...