Word: hunt
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Conoco, Occidental, Texaco and Shell, every major international oil company has joined the hunt, which has turned the blue-green waters off the coast of Louisiana and Texas into one of the busiest exploration areas in North America. Even Petrobras, the national oil company of Brazil and a deep- drilling pioneer, has established a Houston-based subsidiary to get in on the action. The lure of the Gulf is irresistible: estimated oil reserves of up to 36 billion bbl., nearly four times as much as in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay. Companies have snapped up nearly 1,700 federal drilling leases...
Harvard dining halls and faculty offices are not the only scenes of speculation about Harvard's hunt for a new president...
...theater--where we go to see not only drama, but a dramatic re-enactment of life--does not connote racism. And Pachter is not alone among reviewers in his concerns about the responsibilities and repercussions of cross-casting. Liza M. Velasquez asserts in her review of The Royal Hunt of the Sun ("Royal Hunt Misses the Mark," Oct. 26) that the casting decisions made in the Mainstage production were "disappointing." She writes that director Jeremy Blumenthal cross-cast a number of women in the roles of "sympathetic yet incomprehensible male Incas," and goes on to say that "[i]t seems...
Mazowiecki is cautioning his countrymen that economic experiments could bring disaster and warns that an anti-Communist witch-hunt could lead to civil war. His supporters portray Walesa as a potential dictator; Solidarity ideologue Adam Michnik, for instance, recently described him as "malicious, antagonistic and dangerous" and likely to create the first "Peronist-style" government in Eastern Europe. The Prime Minister's standing received a boost last week when German Chancellor Helmut Kohl unexpectedly agreed to a treaty confirming Poland's western border with Germany...
...Crimson (5-3 overall, 3-2 Ivy) remains tied with Yale for third place in the Ivy League hunt, one game behind Dartmouth and Cornell. A loss to the Quakers (2-6,2-3) today, and next Saturday's clash with the Elis will be little more than a battle for pride...