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...sample, I would say the bulk of respondents were pleasantly surprised. Their expenditures were reduced beyond what they had anticipated. They hadn't realized how much it cost them to work...
Because of the extreme limitations on where foreigners may travel, the bulk of the book takes place in Delisle's hotel, and at the various official landmarks he is encouraged to visit, almost all of which pay homage to the state or its leadership. As a result the book reads as a series of sharply observed and funny/scary anecdotes on the life of a foreigner in what may be the most hyper-controlled society in the world. One typically smart sequence examines the ubiquitous side-by-side portraits of the leader Kim Jong-Il and his dead-but-technically-still...
Brown capitalized on Harvard’s Hartigan fixation with a mix of misdirection and play action, which regularly rendered the bulk of the Crimson’s defensive corps out of position to land a tackle on the actual ball carrier or defend a downfield pass. Bears quarterback Joe DiGiacomo passed for 141 yards in the first quarter alone, 83 of them coming on one long touchdown pass over the top of the secondary...
...should consider increasing taxes on the wealthy, while some Republicans, including Arizona Senator John McCain, want lawmakers to cut back on pork-barrel spending. But Congress is highly unlikely to achieve either goal. Instead, Washington is expected to continue borrowing money without finding ways to pay for it. The bulk of the rebuilding costs will probably show up in next year's budget deficit, which was estimated--pre-Katrina--to exceed $314 billion...
...environmental downside? Groups like the Sierra Club say the rules would have the perverse effect of encouraging carmakers to bulk up vehicles so they would fall under more lenient m.p.g. standards. Automakers such as Ford and GM might even be tempted to give up building small cars altogether because they would no longer need them to improve their overall fuel-efficiency numbers...