Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TAKE A LOOK around and witness the depths to which international affairs have sunk...
...place the MX in extra-deep silos sunk into mountainsides, thus allowing the missile to survive a nuclear attack...
...Soviet port of Murmansk, was attacked by a Nazi U-boat and destroyers in the icy Barents Sea. The ensuing naval engagement was brutish and long: after being torpedoed by a U-boat, the Edinburgh mauled one destroyer but was again torpedoed and finally, while drifting helplessly, was sunk by another British ship. Down with the cruiser went the 55 members of her 850-man crew who had died in the fighting-and entombed with them went five tons of gold ingots, contained in 93 wooden cases, that were a payment by the Soviets to the U.S. for military supplies...
...track record for finding oil. It has obtained oil and gas leases for 750,000 acres in the Rockies, as well as for 46,000 acres in California's Imperial Valley. This month it will start drilling in North Dakota. But so far Eagle oilmen have never even sunk an oil or gas well...
...There's never been a paper that has turned around after the ad share has sunk as low as the Bulletin's." Perhaps. But the Bulletin is going to try. At week's end the paper's management and unions were discussing ways to cut costs. Says Hayden: "If we didn't think it was a sound plan, we'd just close the doors...