Word: tuna
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other Administration officials went still further by suggesting that the U.S. would send an unarmed cargo ship to resupply the embassy in Kuwait City, where 27 diplomats are reportedly down to their last month's worth of canned tuna and rice. If Iraq tried to interfere with the mission, that might provide a pretext for massive military retaliation. Saddam's reaction was to put his commanders on "extreme alert" in order to "thwart the perfidious intentions of the United States and its allies to launch an attack in the coming few days...
...Roberts, chairman of Talman, which is the largest thrift in Illinois: "Our market values have been declining because of the turmoil that's been created in the S&L industry, and now we're told to go out and raise more capital. You've caught the dolphin in the tuna net here...
...complex supporting cast of characters in a few swift paragraphs. They travel from open hostility toward this stranger, to liking her despite her imperfections, to loving her because of them. The most complacent wife discovers that love can disappear, not overnight but in the course of a hundred tuna casseroles served every Friday. No one is immune from dissatisfaction and its companion, desire, which can be tamped down but comes back unannounced. "You might find it when you slipped your hand into a rubber glove to scour the kitchen sink, or in the wedges of pears sliced onto a plate...
...make your statement with what you have. Crandall Addington, slim as a whip, whose year-round gamble is oil and gas exploration in South Texas, wears an elegant suit, a diamond stickpin, alligator boots, a neatly trimmed beard and a full-rigged Stetson. Tuna Lund, a huge fellow from Reno who got his nickname from an oceanic losing streak in Carson City, Nev. (a sure loser is a fish, and a tuna is a big fish), just sits at the table looking massive. He hasn't much choice; but if he's winning (which he is, just...
...estimated 100,000 of the mammals die annually when they are inadvertently trapped in tuna nets. Most of the slaughter is in the eastern Pacific from Chile to Southern California, where, for reasons still unknown to biologists, dolphins tend to school with yellowfin tuna. The dolphins fall prey to the purse-seine method of netting, in which fishermen cast a large net around a school of tuna and then pull it taut like the drawstring of a purse. The canners said last week they will no longer accept tuna caught in the region unless it has been harvested without snaring...