Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bureaus, the Journal's contingent is second largest, behind the New York Times. In the capital, notes TIME Correspondent Simmons Fentress, it is regarded as one of the top three, along with the Times and the Los Angeles Times. Specialists, such as James M. Perry and Albert R. Hunt (politics), Dennis Farney (Congress), Richard J. Levine (economics), Kenneth H. Bacon (defense) and Karen Elliott House (foreign affairs), are pre-eminent in their fields...
Oilmen are quietly confident that the global energy hunt will eventually pay off, though they readily admit that there are probably few new super gushers still waiting to be discovered. Yet even if the biggest fields have probably already been found, only two-thirds of the world's 600 major oil basins have been drilled so far. That means that anywhere from 500 billion to 1,250 billion bbl. of oil may still be discovered. Since the most accessible areas of the world were searched first, any new oil bonanzas are unfortunately likely to lie in harsh, remote areas...
...Carlo Donat-Cattin, deputy secretary-general and No. 2 man in the dominant Christian Democratic Party. It seemed that Donat-Cattin's son Marco, 28, was a fellow member of Prima Linea. According to San-dalo, when the father learned that police were about to start a man hunt for Marco, he summoned Sandalo and begged him to warn his son that he should flee the country. But who tipped off Donat-Cattin about the impending arrest? Sandalo claimed it came from the top-from Prime Minister Cossiga himself...
...title suggests, the fascination is in the hunt, in the search for solutions. Problem: a small tribe in New Guinea, the Fore, was threatened with extinction. For unknown reasons, most of its women were being attacked by a nerve disease that began in giggles and ended in death. Dr. D. Carleton Gajdusek, an American epidemiologist, arrived in 1957 and investigated. He gave the victims every medicine on the shelves. He checked the water in the streams, the soil, even the ashes in the cooking fires. Finally, after months of inquiry, he discovered that when someone died, the Fore buried...
...Hunts revealed in the documents the inner relations of family businesses. Each brother, for example, owns an equal share of Planet Petroleum. But Bunker has 50% of Hunt International Petroleum, which holds valuable oil leases in Canada's Beaufort...