Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moderate MDC coalition will insist that to charter the FDP group would be to commit political suicide in Mississippi, where the bulk of the political power is white. The coalition will point out that voters think of the FDP as radical (if not communist), and there would be little hope of organizing an effective YD club around an FDP core...
...balance of payments by cutting back U.S. bank loans to foreigners and repatriating more profits from ventures abroad. But they will in crease their foreign investments by 20% this year, spending a record $7.4 billion, about half of it in highly developed and competitive Western Europe. The bulk of these investments will not damage the U.S. balance of payments. Reason: U.S. companies are increasingly turning to European capital markets, in varying ways, to finance their Continental invasion...
...bulk of our efforts should thus be devoted to doctoral training, and the general climate of the School according shifted in the direction of advanced studies. We propose that the Ed.M, in the scholarly or disciplinary fields and the general Ed.M. be given up, or else radically restricted, since they are, at best, stepping stones to doctoral study, and do not, in themselves, generally represent a clear and "terminal" level of professional competence. The exploratory function which they sometimes fulfill for students who are as yet undecided about doctoral study can be equally well fulfilled by graduate study without matriculation...
...Germany has spent more than $1 billion to clear away the debris, rebuild the fleet, deepen the rivers and improve the country's 65 inland ports. Reason for continued reliance on the Continent's oldest form of transportation: it is still the cheapest way to ship bulk freight. To move a metric ton of coal from Duisburg to Mannheim, for example, costs $1.87 by water, $4.87 by rail...
...noting that "traffic predictions have almost always proved too low." Even if inland shipping's share of commerce fails to grow proportionately, says Marquardt, it is still bound to increase in absolute terms as growing factories-in Germany and elsewhere-require ever greater amounts of the ores and bulk raw materials that the slow-chugging barges still carry so economically...