Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rising oil prices meant high times for Blocker Energy Corp., a leading contract drilling firm. The Houston-based company assembled a worldwide fleet of rigs and kept them perpetually and profitably busy in the hunt for oil. But falling prices have choked that search and nearly throttled Blocker, which lost $71.7 million in 1982. "Our immediate priority," says Chairman J.R. Blocker, "is to survive...
...high school students take no math or science beyond the tenth grade, and half of all teachers hired to teach math and science at the secondary level are not certified in those disciplines. Hoping to find ways to make education for high technology a top national priority, Governor James Hunt of North Carolina and Dr. David Hamburg, president of the Carnegie Corporation, assembled a blue-ribbon panel of 50 business, education and government leaders. Last week the coalition issued a report declaring that the present economic challenge from Japan and other countries is "more profound than Sputnik." The Federal Government...
...Mike, the son of a well-to-do South Carolina lawyer, is a patient turned counselor at Charleston's Fenwick Hall drug-treatmeat center. He carried a gun during his cocaine madness. In 1980, as he was being arrested for the last time (for jumping into Charleston Harbor to "hunt sharks"), he kicked out the windows of a police squad car. Fortunately, according to Haight-Ashbury's Dr. Smith, cocaine psychosis can be moderated with antipsychotic drugs (like Haldol), and the hallucinations usually stop two to four days after the last dose of coke...
...individual attention continues as clients start their job hunt and after they are hired. Ackerley says the agency "keeps me on the ball" with daily telephone calls and frequent follow-up visits...
...sang like a frog and played his ever present ukulele like a hunt-and-peck typist. He talked with his mouth full and tossed aside his script to ad-lib whatever came into his head. He had no talent but folksiness. For Arthur Godfrey, that was enough. At his peak in the 1950s he was, after President Eisenhower, perhaps the best-loved man in America. Godfrey's daily radio show and two weekly TV shows on CBS brought the network as much as 12% of its total revenue. Said CBS Chairman William Paley of Godfrey in his heyday...