Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last month the Dean of Students' office sent out some 6600 invitations to an outdoor black tie affair on October 11, as partial compensation for holding the bulk of the 350th celebration while undergrads were out of town. I saw it for what it was: a tail-between-the-legs attempt to avoid student criticism and smooth our ruffled feathers. But what the hell, I'm always up for a good party...
...sleek convertible that General Motors is formally unveiling in Detroit this week looks a bit out of place wearing the ornate Cadillac nameplate. The car has no fins, no bulk, virtually no chrome, not even a backseat. In fact, the new Allante (price: about $50,000) looks more like a sports car than the kind of Cadillac young, wealthy car buyers can remember their grandparents driving. But that is precisely what its creators at GM had hoped. Determined to shed the stodgy image that has caused the company to lose so many upscale U.S. buyers to Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar...
...government daily Izvestia quoted a cruise-ship seaman, identified only as "Helmsman Smirnov," as saying "We saw the bulk carrier in the distance. The duty officer started calling it by radio. We took its bearing and realized that the ship would cross our path. After a few moments came the Pyotr Vasev's answer: 'Don't worry. We shall steer clear of each other. We shall do what is needed.' " Yet the freighter failed to change course. Another newspaper report charged that the Admiral Nakhimov's captain was negligent. Both captains were arrested and are in custody pending the outcome...
...able to be comprehended by a person of average intelligence," said Griswold, former dean at the Law School. Such an approach ignores the mission to train professionals with practical concerns, he said. Law professors are often mired in theoretical concerns and give little practical guidance to their students, the bulk of whom will be practicing lawyers, he said...
When TIME editors scheduled this week's cover story on Designer Ralph Lauren, Bonnie Angelo, TIME's Eastern regional bureau chief, tackled the bulk of the reporting herself. "Most stories I've worked on have dealt with politics," she says, "so the fact that this one was about business interested...