Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hunt and Judy Woodruff...
...will tell you that "the engine of our growth for the next several years" is going to be intermodal traffic, which means the use of truck trailers and special containers that can be easily exchanged between rail and truck chassis. Santa Fe and the giant trucking concern of J.B. Hunt Transport, in Lowell, Arkansas, pioneered the modern strategic alliances between trains and trucks, which used to be mortal enemies in the marketplace. Increased rail efficiency, rising truck costs and as much as 100% driver turnover a year in trucking drove the two industries together. Santa Fe carries nearly...
...only logical that the plot will eventually climax in a hunt through Chance's native swamps. What's unexpected is that Wilfrid Brimley will be in the marshes fighting along side Van Damme as Chance's uncle. Between "The Firm" and "Hard Target," Brimley seems to be going to great efforts to banish the Quaker Oats guy forever...
...crooks. Though ruthless and determined, they have a foppish quality and a refinement surprising for someone in their line of work. In one nice mise-en-scene bit Henriksen plays a Beethoven sonata in the drawing room of his estate while another homeless man is recruited for the next hunt. Henriksen's crony questions the victim about his finances and relatives. Each answer is intercut with shots of Henricksen and his opulent estate...
...other argument is that unlike their larger cousins, minke whales are so plentiful -- there are an estimated 86,700 living off the coast of Norway alone, and a total of 900,000 worldwide -- that a controlled hunt wouldn't harm the species. No less a body than the scientific committee of the IWC has decided that the minkes could indeed tolerate a limited hunt; the committee recommended that the whaling ban be partly lifted...