Word: bunkering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three Hunt brothers who are the principal heirs of Papa H.L. -- Nelson Bunker, now 60, William Herbert, 57, and Lamar, 54 -- estimated their combined net worth to be between $5 billion and $6 billion. Last August they admitted that their fortune had fallen to about $2 billion. Since then, oil prices have plunged more than 50%, and it is now difficult to say what all those idle Hunt rigs and energy reserves are worth. The brothers still have many millions stashed in personal holdings -- from bank accounts to racehorses and rare coins -- but they may no longer be able...
...case, Gaddafi survived the attack, apparently because he was not in his personal residence but, said a close associate, "underground"--presumably in a bunker where he often sleeps. His family was less fortunate: an 18-month-old girl, reportedly his adopted daughter Hana, was said to have been one of at least 37 civilian casualties of the raid. The dictator's two young sons, Saif al Arab, 4, and Hamis, 3, were injured and his wife Safia shell-shocked when bombs blew off the front walls of their living quarters...
...them dropped 16 laser-guided 2,000-lb. bombs. The hope, said a senior Administration official, was to "turn the barracks into dust." The bombs cratered the compound, blew out windows and caved in a wall, but did not flatten any buildings. Gaddafi was probably safe in his underground bunker when the planes broke off the attack and headed back out to sea. One F-111, apparently hit by antiaircraft fire, never made...
...this swirls around the surly character of Joe, TV's most convincing misanthrope since Archie Bunker. In Boyle's sharp and unsentimental portrayal, crustiness never becomes cute, and there are echoes of authentic urban despair in the patter. "What are you gonna do over the weekend?" Willie asks Joe, whose wife left him 15 years ago. "Same as I always do. Sit it out till Monday," he replies. Willie nags him to get out of the apartment and make friends. "I had friends," Joe snaps. "I didn't like it." At the end of one episode, Joe is even found...
...entry device." Aside from the fact that some cop appears to have loaded the bomb with extra explosive above and beyond the call of sanity, the idea of using a small explosive just to gain entry is strategically sound. If it had worked, if it had dislodged the armored bunker on top of the row house, the whole thing might have ended a swift, successful anti-terrorist strike...