Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mary Lou Hunt Cincinnati...
...summer of 1981, the Hunt Commission (named for its chairman, Governor James Hunt of North Carolina) met to draw up new rules for the Democratic Party's 1984 nominating process. The party pros had some valid complaints: the primary season was too long, overworking the candidates and turning off voters. Earlier reforms opening the party to more women, blacks and party neophytes had gone too far, reducing the rewards of longtime party loyalty and the influence of seasoned officials. Democratic stalwarts had been denied the nomination by comparative upstarts like McGovern and Jimmy Carter. Representatives of Mondale, Senator Edward...
Although Harvard has Tate, Northeastern has just about everything else. The Huskie squad is anchored by its four defensemen and sophomore goalie Patti Hunt, who has four of Northeastern's six shutouts. The two top blueliners are freshman Stephanie Kelly and sophomore Sharon Stidsen...
Travel reading, when you think about it, is a fairly odd pastime. Essentially, the travel reader is paying someone else, the travel writer, to take a trip for him: not a perilous hunt for the white whale or the source of the Niger, usually, but just a plain old trip. The writer agrees, by implication, to inspect sunsets and pretty girls, to sniff sea air when this is appropriate, to eat and drink fearlessly, to be overcharged by taxi drivers, and to report back. The reader agrees, for some reason, to subsidize this gamboling...
Before the plan got very far, Volcker torpedoed it. He pointed to the key role that the Federal Reserve has played in dealing with such crises as the Hunt brothers' silver scare in 1980 and the continuing foreign-loan problems of developing nations. Stripping the Reserve Board of its regulatory powers, Volcker contended, would cripple the agency. Said the chairman: "It would indeed be dangerous to look to the Federal Reserve to pick up the pieces in a financial crisis without also providing it with the tools...