Word: prowls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Michigan is only one of many regions around the U.S. where geologists and petroleum engineers are on the prowl for fuel. In Arizona and Appalachia, in New York and North Carolina, wildcatters and exploration teams are in breakneck competition to cash in on the energy bonanza brought on by the ever escalating prices of both oil and natural gas. Last year domestic drilling surged by 22%. In March alone, 6,404 wells were dug in the U.S., 650 more than during the same month of the year before...
...consecutive "skunk winters," when temperatures were so mild that sick animals were not killed off quickly by the cold, are being blamed for the proliferation of rabid animals. But at least part of the problem is that packs of dogs now prowl the roads of an area near Cairo, Ill., known as Little Egypt. Many animals have been abandoned by their owners, often University of Southern Illinois students from Carbondale who simply turn their pets loose when the school year ends. Other pack members are house dogs allowed to go unleashed. In Royalton, Amy Imhoff, 6, was savagely bitten...
...activity has been on the rise, in both obvious and not-so-obvious ways. Soviet destroyers, cruisers and diesel-powered, torpedo-firing Foxtrot submarines have been passing through the strait at the rate of about six a month, while nuclear-powered Echo-class subs, armed with antiship cruise missiles, prowl the South China Sea. Malacca is so shallow that subs must go through with at least their conning towers awash and therefore tend to make the passage at night. But the Indonesian navy believes fully submerged Soviet subs have been testing the deeper waters of the Sunda Strait...
...unborn space probe, stayed up all night linking a hasty network of aerials to catch the faint beeps of the intruder that mocked the presumed U.S. technological superiority. Power and politics were never again the same in the capital. Sputnik signaled a new superpower on the prowl. Space, for the moment, was the area of contention, but the meaning went far beyond. It still does...
Then Moll moved on to Vassar, a school whose identity fuzzed after it went coeducational. Between 1975 and 1980, Moll mobilized alums, sent admissions staffers to prowl high schools and issued a new brochure whose cover was a cartoon showing a young male student in a Vassar T shirt being jeered by men from Harvard, Princeton and Yale. Again applications rose-from...