Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eleven students work in the development office, the department responsible for the bulk of Harvard's fundraising activities. They compile lists of potential donors, says Beverly Bennett, director of development services. The student workers are not privy to donors' financial records, Bennett says...
...stood in sharp relief from the rest of the packet. Where the bulk of the mailing had an air of mindless veneration for this institution (quoting Cotton Mather liberally), Adams' book offered a tale of Harvard's inadequacy--the "chief wonder of education" here being that Harvard did not completely "ruin everybody concerned with...
Dorm crew workers say they "sanitize" the roomsby sweeping and mopping the floors, scrubbing thebathrooms, dusting the horizontal surfaces andmaking the beds. The single biggest problem overtime, says Edwards, is "the bulk of the rubbish."He says the dorm crews fill several dumpsters withtrash over the course of the week...
...airlines facing possible Federal Aviation Administration fines totaling nearly $6.5 million for alleged breaches of safety and security rules. The roster includes United ($1.26 million), Hawaiian ($1.17 million), Continental ($982,130), Eastern ($893,500), Braniff ($518,000), American ($421,250) and Northwest ($371,000). The bulk of United's penalty is for temporarily removing so-called vapor-seal covers from the wings of its Boeing 767s, allegedly increasing the chances of fire. United says it was trying to solve a vibration problem on the 767s and "expects to respond fully and to the FAA's satisfaction on the matter...
...meeting was motivated by the long, grinding decline in oil prices that has strapped petroleum-rich countries the world over. A decade ago, when OPEC controlled the bulk of oil output, the group could boost prices at whim. But as OPEC's share of the world's oil market has dwindled, from 56% in 1973 to 33% today, so has the group's control over prices. OPEC has tried to persuade its increasingly productive rivals to limit their output, but they have nonetheless pumped freely and helped swamp the market. They hitherto saw no reason to cooperate with OPEC, since...