Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...each semester resumes clutter each professor's desk. Talented Faculty of Arts and Sciences graduate students still do the bulk of the teaching, but the less-than-competent manage to slip through the cracks. As a result, undergraduates get whomever's available...
There is good reason to believe that the bulk of U.S. relief is not reaching those who need it most. Nowhere is the disparity in wealth more apparent than in the San Francisco neighborhood of the capital, where huge houses sit behind electrified barbed-wire fences. These are the homes of the wealthy landowners and businessmen who pulled most of the strings of power before the military coup of 1979. They shop at U.S.-style malls on the Boulevard de Los Heroes, favor the Mercedes-Benz SL and try to overlook the rat's nest of tin and cardboard huts...
Sharansky, the former Soviet refusenik who was released from his nine-year prison sentence three years ago, said that most Americans laud Mikhail Gorbachev for allowing the emigration of several well-known, prominent dissidents, but few realize that his regime has barred the bulk of other Jews from emigrating...
Gibbs caught McGill off-guard by quickly picking up the ball after a McGill penalty. Gibbs ran to the weakside, drawing the bulk of the unset defense to him, and then passed the ball to Thorndike, who bounced off a tackler and dove into the corner...
Donald Trump could not resist crowing. The flamboyant Manhattan real estate developer confided to journalists last week that he had foreseen the end of the long bull market in August, when the Dow Jones industrial average neared its peak of 2722. Trump, 41, had accordingly cashed in the bulk of his stock holdings, some $500 million worth of shares in Allegis, Holiday Inns, Bally Recreation and other companies. As Black Monday loomed for less fortunate investors, the tycoon claimed he had made a net profit of some $200 million. Now, Trump declared, he intended to "stay in cash...