Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wall Street has always had contrarians who hunt for fallen angels, but the number of available so-called distressed securities was not large enough to support many specialists in this field. In recent years, however, a surge in bankruptcies has created a boom in the bust market. The value of investments made in distressed securities could reach $20 billion this year, in contrast to less than $1 billion a decade...
Instrumental in the success of the gulf strike were the efforts of Admiral William Crowe, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Contending that it is far better to prevent minelaying than to hunt for explosives after they are planted, Crowe overrode interservice rivalries and dispatched a specially equipped and trained Army unit to join the gulf fleet. Three weeks ago he visited Rear Admiral Harold Bernsen, commander of the Middle East Force on the command ship U.S.S. La Salle off Bahrain. The two officers worked on the plans to track and catch Iranian vessels capable of laying mines. Crowe...
...Meadowlands. A wounded Korean War vet, he collects $333 a month veteran's compensation, and that, along with $1,200 he and Nora make each year selling their crafts, is enough to buy the various items -- gas, Postum, margarine -- that they can't grow in their garden, hunt, sew, fish for, trade for or find in the Taos County dump...
...When I was a kid in New Jersey," says Ron, "I used to go to the dump to hunt rats. There was this guy named Mike who lived there in a big refrigerator crate. I remember one day he was cooking up some potatoes he'd found, and he suddenly looked around and said to me, arms outstretched, 'This place is rich. Rich.' It really made an impression...
...turned out, it was neither the fingerprints nor the blood samples that ended the hunt. On Thursday night, while Kelly and others were being interviewed on ABC's Nightline about the case, police arrested a man who was trying to sell a shotgun at a pawn shop in nearby Braddock. The gun had been stolen from a house where one of the rapes had taken place. The suspect: Dennis Foy, 22, is unemployed and lives with his family on the same block where one of the rapes occurred. His father, unemployed Steelworker Julius Foy, 57, had voluntarily given his fingerprints...