Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...move was intended to cool speculation, as well as prevent what market analysts suspect might be an attempt by a small number of ultrarich investors, operating anonymously through foreign banks, to "corner" the world market for silver. One much mentioned speculator in this context is Dallas Megamillionaire Nelson Bunker Hunt, though he insists that he has no such intention. The corner would occur if the investors could buy so many silver future delivery contracts that they would wind up with enough of the metal this March to manipulate world prices...
...politicians, sociologists, philosophers, scientists and journalists, including some of those that found their way into this magazine, fell dismally short of even hinting at the actual shape and tone of the society that took form in the '70s. Such was the record that Education Professor Ronald L. Hunt, who designed the nation's first graduate program in futurism at California's San Jose State University, says that the 1980s ought to open the "age of humility" for forecasting...
Pull the plug and you will blow their minds. They have devoured all the words and come to the final conclusion for the night. And they will hunt out more the next day, scouring the grainy photographs, the over-reactions, the ultimate threat, the burning of people who want to know the true reason, who want to see past the satellite. They plug in at night for final treatment, and Frank Reynolds will suckle them, and show them that everybody in the world hates the U.S.A...
...real Booth had been run to ground: not least, the $50,000 War Department reward for his capture. It is up to Cosgrove, largely on his own, to trace the actual circumstances of Lincoln's assassination, Booth's escape and supposed death after a twelve-day hunt, and the mysterious burial. The Pinkerton man, a former Union spy, leaves no headstone unturned tracking the actor, a onetime Confederate agent. It is a harrowing assignment, leading him to prod such sacred cows as Robber Baron Jay Gould and General Lafayette C. Baker, Lincoln's spymaster. By carriage, train...
...Boston University has a bona fide team and they're making a lot of noise about the GBCs. They've got some quality performers and good depth, but so do we," coach Pappy Hunt said Friday...