Word: controller
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...government or industrial users' hands. But Hunt is surely the biggest commodity speculator in the country. He has been accused in the past of trying to corner the market in soybeans as well as silver. He has also made and lost fortunes in oil, directs the Hunt family's control of one of the nation's largest sugar-beet processors, and owns what may be the world's largest stable of race horses (600). Altogether, his activities would doubtless please his late father, the legendary oil billionaire H.L. Hunt...
...father's traits. Like H.L., Bunker is a zealot for far-right causes. He is on the national council of the John Birch Society and is said to have angrily quit the University of Texas after one semester because one of his professors suggested that the Government should control all natural resources. Like H.L., Bunker has a penchant for controversy; he is almost constantly enmeshed in lawsuits. In 1975 Bunker and his brother Herbert were tried in federal court on charges of Bunker's having tapped the phones of their father's business associates. The brothers protested that they...
Though the two chairmen disagreed on energy policy, both agreed that no new committee should take command of their battlefield. Udall was afraid the new committee would gain control of nuclear safety standards, a responsibility of his subcommittee. Dingell had more reason to worry: his subcommittee was going to be incorporated whole into the new body...
...summer league ball on the title-winning Hosmer Chiefs (freshman outfielder Donnie Allard also played) for his swing's improvement. Coach Alex Nahigian said Kelley's weight training on the Nautilus machine provided some needed strength development and helped Kelley "trim down." Though his waistline is under far better control than his turret of red hair, "trim" is not a word many associate with Kelley...
...John Sorich or Greg Brown are the best bets, depending on how they throw in practice. Sorich had been slated as the top relief pitcher, but with Alevizos back he could also start. Brown, yet another freshman who has looked good this spring, throws hard but has been having control problems...