Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bulk of the witnesses were little worried by lost lubrication; a recent survey by the Research Institute of America showed that 61% of U.S. executives feel that some rule-tightening would be desirable. What bothered businessmen most was all the bookkeeping that the IRS proposed to inflict on them. Predicted Accountant Jacquin D. Bierman...
...Three profess to be unworried, point out that their own revenues have increased an average 15% this year. They figure that the businessmen travelers who make up the bulk of their clientele are unlikely to try the little-known discounters just to save a few dollars. Says one Hertz executive: "Businessmen on expense accounts just don't care about a bargain." But if the company controllers who check expense accounts begin to care more about a bargain, the discounters could get quite a lift...
...Nick's is made up of former New England college hockey stars, with Princeton. Yale, and Middlebury alumni forming the bulk of the squad...
...Indian forces number some 500,000, but fewer than 100,000 men were committed to the Red border area-the bulk of the army, and many of its best units, being kept on guard duty in Kashmir watching the Pakistanis. A strictly volunteer army, with the men serving five-year terms, it drew its troops largely from the warrior races of the north-Jats, Sikhs, Gurkhas, Dogras, Garhwalis. Over the past century, the Indian army has fought from France to China, and has usually fought excellently, whether pitted against Pathan guerrillas, Nazi panzer grenadiers or Japanese suicide squads...
...University of Chicago, of which he was a trustee for 48 years, Meat Packer Harold H. Swift willed the $5,000,000 bulk of his $7,000,000 estate, half of the money to be used at the discretion of the school's officials, the other half as a permanent endowment fund. Cautioned Swift, a bachelor whose major outside interest was the university: "The fund is to be invested and reinvested ... I do not mean thereby to encourage the taking of wild gambles, trusting to luck; but rather I would have said university free to take on occasional unorthodox...