Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...buffeting Baker's nominee for Deputy Secretary of State, Lawrence Eagleburger, a former high-ranking diplomat who most recently was the $200,000-a-year president of Kissinger Associates. The firm's global list of clients (including Britain's Midland Bank, South Korea's vast Daewoo Group and Hunt Oil projects in the Middle East) is so extensive that he may have to cross off entire continents to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest. Eagleburger, who would be in charge when Baker is out of the country, proposes to solve the problem by recusing himself from any decision...
Special Ops took on the Texas operation because waterfowl numbers have been plummeting in the face of droughts, habitat loss and illegal hunting and because a preliminary investigation uncovered widespread flouting of the wildlife laws. Leach and other investigators simply masqueraded as duck hunters. Of the 42 hunting clubs visited, an astonishing 41 violated basic waterfowl-protection laws. In the course of the operation, agents regularly documented egregious violations. At one posh club, for instance, an undercover agent was asked by unsuspecting guides to videotape a hunt during which 13 hunters slaughtered 204 birds (139 over the limit for that...
...framework. Beyond grappling with the haunting question "Did he do it?," the Governor will, inescapably, weigh the political fallout either way he goes. Once again, a capital case and a person's fate will be determined by a politician with a partisan agenda. In 1984 North Carolina Governor James Hunt was waging a fierce battle for the U.S. Senate seat held by Jesse Helms. Meanwhile, another political battle was raging. Velma Barfield, a matronly grandmother convicted of murdering her fiance while under the influence of drugs, was scheduled to be executed around election time. Barfield had won the sympathies...
...puts us back in the playoff hunt," O'Neill said. "It's a confidence builder...
...nothing else, is a sign of intelligence. Before taking up fire fighting, Nick was a cop falsely tainted by corruption. Now the very people who secretly profited by victimizing him -- the crooked, volcanic mayor (Rod Steiger) and the bland, bureaucratic police commissioner (Harvey Keitel) -- need him to lead the hunt for a maniacal killer...