Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Provident building two protesters were arrested early in the day after entering the lobby. When the bulk of the crowd arrived at 3 p.m. to issue "citizen's arrests" to the CIA, police restrained them from entering the building, and dragged a few from in front of the door...
...bulk of the $1 million required to support the Stendahl Professorship of Divinity was contributed by about 30 anonymous friends since the Bishop left the School in September 1984, said Roger H. Martin, associate dean for administration at the Divinity School...
...such guarantees could be offered to fellow Europeans. The French were particularly concerned, since their importers not only sell Italian wine in supermarkets but also bring in bulk brands from Italy to fortify local products. At the ports of Sete and Marseilles, officials sequestered tankers carrying some 4.4 million gal. of southern Italian wine and dumped it after discovering contamination. West Germany tracked down 1,600 bottles of tainted Barbera in a warehouse near Karslruhe. Britain and Austria removed bottles of the wine from store shelves...
...contamination may have resulted from a criminal effort by one or more wine dealers to boost their profits. Because the price of bulk wine is determined in part by its alcohol content, some wine dealers have on occasion added methyl, or wood, alcohol to their product. That increases the alcohol content of the wine and thus raises its value. But unlike the ethyl alcohol that is naturally found in wine, methyl alcohol in sizable doses can produce blindness and death. In this case, someone negligently or maliciously added too much methyl alcohol to the wine...
Benfari said the bulk of Harvard researchmonies come from National Institute of Health,which gives over $80 million annually, andNational Science Foundation grants, whose figureswere unavailable...