Word: hunted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state-of-the-art devices that are making treasure hunters both more scientific and more successful. Where once these undersea detectives took a wild plunge with ancient charts and a hunch, the modern salvage team can reduce the search area to the site of a small lake, and hunt for pieces of gold no bigger than a pencil eraser...
...floor. By studying the "hits" on charts, an experienced technician can pick out possible ship ruins. "We found eleven targets in the first two days," says Harrington. His divers then went down to investigate; the fifth wreck they checked was the De Braak, the object of their hunt...
...latest figures from the Federal Election Commission show that by the end of June, the Helms campaign had raised $8.4 million and spent $8.8 million, while the Hunt organization had collected $5.2 million and spent $3.9 million. The campaign may end up costing $20 million, shattering the record for a U.S. Senate race ($13.6 million in the 1982 California contest in which Republican Pete Wilson beat Jerry Brown). The Raleigh News & Observer reported that about 75% of the Senator's campaign contributions have come from out of state. About 52% of Hunt's funds are from outside North...
Both candidates are currently scrambling for the estimated 10% of the voting population that is undecided. Helms has wooed that group by playing up his ties to President Reagan and linking Hunt to Walter Mondale, who is unpopular in much of North Carolina. New voters may also play a key role. Some 77,000 blacks registered in the past year could be a plus for Hunt. Helms has unabashedly alienated blacks by boasting of his efforts against the creation of a national holiday honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. The Moral Majority says it has registered 70,000 white...
...link that eventually connects Kimberly with Scaithe is Kimberly's daughter, Penny, who has grown up under a false name after being abandoned by her father as a young girl. After a tearful reunion. Penny realizes that her father is the fox in a massive hunt and she hides him away in the country. Yet unbeknownst to Penny, her lover of the past year is also a secret agent working on the case who eventually leads Scaither to Kimberly. Le Carre fans will recognize this twist as a direct crib from Smiley's People, in which George Smiley, by kindnapping...