Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That is a long way from the $150 a week Griffin made as a Big Band crooner in the late '40s, when he recorded I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Cocoanuts. Once a boy blimp who weighed 240 lbs., Griffin shed a third of that bulk so he could sing on stage. He later had a brief movie career, which included one line in a Doris Day film. Guest appearances for Jack Paar, Johnny Carson's predecessor in NBC-TV's late-night spot, won Griffin his own daytime talk show in 1960, which he syndicated...
...public. Then stock markets around the world crashed. Since the BP shares had been priced far above their postcollapse market value, it seemed certain that few investors would buy them. Enter the Kuwait Investment Office, the London-based agency of Kuwait's Finance Ministry that handles the bulk of the Arab country's overseas holdings. Beginning in early November, the Kuwaitis started to buy BP stock in large amounts and singlehandedly salvaged the offering...
...bulk of our tickets are issued in residential parking," Teso said. "If we didn't control parking we'd have one big parking lot like we used to. Everyone used to park in Cambridge and go into Boston...
...Haiti and Central America, the homelands of the bulk of the immigrants eligible for amnesty, the authorities are not protectors but predators of the average citizens. And judging from their experiences here, the U.S. authorities are not much different. As noted by Rep. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), sponsor of a bill to extend the application deadline, "To [the illegal aliens], the INS is the agency that is supposed to throw them out of the country...
Thanks to well-organized programs like HAND and PBH, Harvard has traditionally provided the bulk of the volunteers in the Cambridge public schools, Brickman says. Now, students from Lesley College and MIT comprise an increasingly large piece of the volunteer pie because of Brickman's stepped-up recruiting campaign on those campuses. Unlike Harvard, Lesley, a teachers' college, grants its students academic credit for volunteer work in local schools...