Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Atlanta-based businessman denies any such intentions. He told a Bozeman town meeting last week that he would sell rights to hunt elk on his property and plans to replace the ranch's 3,000 head of cattle with buffalo, which produce low-cholesterol meat. But Turner refuses to allow campers to cross his land. Says he: "I bought the place because I wanted to get away from people. We live in an increasingly overcrowded world, and I'm becoming a hermit...
...desperation, however, rests with the Sandinistas' administrative incompetence and ideological intransigence. Loans and credits from once generous contributors, such as West Germany and France, gradually dried up as the regime refused to adopt basic political and economic freedoms. Disillusionment with Sandinista rhetoric became clear during President Daniel Ortega's hunt for handouts in Europe last April and May. Instead of the $250 million he sought, Ortega attracted only $32 million. To a suggestion that more democratization in Nicaragua might again loosen European purses, Ortega declared, "No more concessions...
...tried to bring some psychological drama back to the role. His Bond, balancing on the edge of sanity, is still haunted by the death of his wife. And the attack on Felix pushes him almost over the edge. He drops his Secret Service duties and embarks on a murderous hunt for Sanchez...
...witch-hunt is required to make scoundrels of the student heroes, then a campaign of glorification is required to make heroes of the army scoundrels. Over and over, Chinese television replays shots of soldiers cleaning the streets and distributing food supplies. China's leaders troop through the hospitals visiting wounded soldiers. "You have done an excellent job," an official tells troops in Beijing...
...charge the vehicles. One even walked through camp." These days, a rhino is a rare sight in the African wilderness. In the past 20 years, the black rhino population has plummeted from 65,000 to fewer than 4,000. Rhinos are headed down the trail to extinction because poachers hunt them for their horns. Most rhino horn is smuggled to the Middle East and Asia, where it is carved into dagger handles or ground into folk medicines. Conservationists hope that if African governments lose the battle to protect their rhinos, a stockpile of rhinos in America may someday be used...