Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Logic Factories. One consequence of such snags is the swift rise of software service and consulting companies, which offer high-level technical support, such as systems design or programming to meet individual specifications. By one estimate, there are now some 2,500 of these logic factories, the bulk of them one-to three-man shops. At least two dozen are publicly owned corporations. The largest, Los Angeles' Computer Sciences Corp., has grown from a two-man firm in 1959 into a $37 million-a-year enterprise with 2,500 employees and 156 customers...
...increases are highest-about 5% -for carload or less-than-carload shipments of general merchandise. On such bulk goods as iron ore, grain, coal and pulpwood, which make up much of the railroad business, the increases average about 3%-somewhat less than the carriers requested. Even that much may not be allowed ultimately. Terming last week's decision a temporary one, the ICC ordered the roads to draw up a master tariff list, which the commission will examine and make final changes on in October...
...ever amassed on her borders. Israel amazed the world with the speed and ferocity of her attack. Vastly outnumbered and not nearly as well equipped as their Arab neighbors, the Israelis (without help from either Britain or France as they had received in the 1956 campaign) chased the bulk of Nasser's forces out of Sinai, recaptured Old Jerusalem and the lands West of the Jordan River, and drove to the suburbs of Damascus...
...what images it might evoke) and indeed it would be more appropriate. Aside from a standing army of some 50,000 troops, the Israelis depend on their Reservists who have had two years of active military duty and one month of training a year thereafter. But if the bulk of the Israeli army is made up of Reservists, there can be no doubt that much of their success must be attributed to a resourceful officers corps which at all times has detailed plans for the lightning destruction of Arab forces. Not only have the officers made meticulous calculations of what...
...planes (most of them on the ground) in the first tow days of fighting. Sharm el Sheikh fell to Israeli paratroopers and marines almost without a shot being fired; by then the Egyptians had realized their indefensible position and were trying to get back across the canal before the bulk of the Israeli forces arrived...