Word: sunk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Amid this escalating violence, U.S.Guatemalan relations have sunk to a new low. Washington's pleas for democratic reform have gone unheeded. Like rightists throughout the region, Guatemala's military rulers appear to have written off the Carter Administration in hopes that a Reagan victory in November will reverse U.S. policy...
...into what one staff member termed "total chaos," the President was hit by news that might ultimately prove even more damaging to his re-election chances. An ABC News-Louis Harris survey disclosed that the President's approval rating among Americans had fallen to 22%. No President has sunk lower in public esteem since such polling began in 1939. Even disgraced Richard Nixon had a 25% rating in the Harris poll shortly before resigning his office...
Three stops up the track at Suffolk Downs, its the same scene, but not as bad. The men are younger, better dressed. You've sunk pretty low when you spend every night with the puppies...
...CONTINENTAL U.S. About 2.2 million wells have been sunk in the U.S. since 1859, four times as many as in the rest of the non-Communist world. Thus no experts expect any new Spindletops from conventional fields in Texas, Oklahoma and California. Still, the Geological Survey estimates that between 12.5 billion and 38 billion bbl. of oil are waiting to be found offshore. One of the most promising areas on land is the so-called Western Overthrust Belt in the rugged, mountainous area from southern Colorado to the Canadian border. Experts believe the area could contain many fields...
...Exxon are looking in "iceberg alley" off Canada's east coast, and a dozen companies have been aggressively exploring the Canadian Arctic, especially the Beaufort Sea, where significant oil and gas have been found. But in U.S. territory near the famous North Slope fields oil explorers have not sunk many wells because of court actions brought by Indians and environmentalists who are worried about, among other things, disturbing the migration of the bowhead whale...