Word: hunts
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...hearing last summer on the problems at the Environmental Protection Agency, Congressman John Hiler, an Indiana Republican, angrily accused the panel's Democrats of conducting a political witch hunt. "We are unfortunately doomed to have to undergo what has been an extraordinarily partisan hearing," he said. On reviewing the transcript of the hearing last month, Hiler discovered that his remark had been altered to read: "We are unfortunately doomed?" And there, astonishingly, the sentence ended. This and other surprising examples of phantom fiddling with the official record of House committee hearings had the effect of making Republicans look worse...
...three doctored transcripts have been discovered, all of them involving hearings of the House Government Operations Committee. In addition to the EPA hearing, the panel's 1980 deliberations on an attempt by the Hunt family of Texas to manipulate the silver market and its 1982 discussions on synthetic fuel production were surreptitiously revised. "Some staff person was overzealous," says House Speaker Tip O'Neill. "He didn't do it with instructions from any member." The Massachusetts Democrat said that the culprit, if caught, should be fired...
...were "merely bookworms"; he demanded that the winners have the character to fight "the world's fight." Despite numerous modifications of his imperious vision, the basic criterion remains the same today. Says David Alexander, secretary of the Rhodes program in the U.S.: "The Rhodes competition is a talent hunt for an elite that will lead...
...inflation roared above 10%, and Volcker was forced to slow money growth, boost interest rates and send the economy back into recession. Now that the money supply is rising rapidly again, some economists fear the Federal Reserve is making the same mistake it did in 1980. Says Lacy Hunt, chief economist with the Carroll McEntee & McGinley investment firm in New York City: "What everyone wanted was a nice, controlled, slow recovery. What we're getting is a fast, potentially disorderly recovery." Stanford Economist Michael Boskin is concerned that if excessive money growth continues too long, Volcker will have...
Today the Kansas City complex consists of about a dozen underground areas. One of the largest is owned by Great Midwest Corp., a land-development company that is a subsidiary of Hunt Midwest Enterprises, which in turn is 90% owned by Texas Oilman Lamar Hunt. From a distance, the rocky bluff along the Missouri River does not look any different from the surrounding area. Closer up, just below a mixed herd of grazing Angus and Hereford cattle, a hole in the bluff can be seen with big semitrailers going in and out. The address: 8300 N.E. Underground Drive. From another...