Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kilduff estimated cleanup costs would amount to less than $100,000, with the bulk of that going to remove toppled trees. Jewett said the University's biggest fears had been of water damage and flooding, both of which failed to happen because of the light rainfall...
...networks make money by selling viewers, in bulk and by demographics, to advertisers; NBC has done this so successfully that, since Grant Tinker was named chairman of the network in 1981, an estimated $5 million of red ink has been alchemized into a projected $200 million profit for 1985. But what has NBC sold viewers on? Mostly a feast of slick weekly series in three broad categories: the traditional situation comedy, led by last season's phenom The Cosby Show (2nd in the yearlong Nielsen ratings to CBS's Dallas) and including Family Ties (3rd), Cheers (9th), Night Court (19th...
When Israel withdrew the bulk of its forces from Lebanon last June, it warned that attacks on northern Israel would provoke retaliation. Last week, after rocket assaults on northern settlements, the death of two Israeli soldiers in a south Lebanon ambush and a string of suicide car-bomb attacks, the country made good its vow. Backed by helicopter gunships and heavy armor, Israeli troops stormed into three Lebanese Shi'ite communities near Israel's border. The primary target was Qabrikha, from where, Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin said, Israel has been attacked by Katyusha rockets. The Israelis ordered residents...
...seems worth it. The depot's main building, finished in 1894, is a massive, lovable quirk. The local architect, Theodore Link, was obviously under the influence of Henry Hobson Richardson: rough limestone blocks, big arched doors, Romanesque bulk. But inside and out, he and Louis Millet, the interior decorator, wildly mixed and matched styles. The west wing has its odd Gothic outcroppings, the Grand Hall some rather Moorish nooks and ornament; an intimate dining room seems Viennese; and, of course, the steel-truss roof built to cover trains and tracks is pure 19th century Industrial...
...bulk of the nation's $5.6 billion outstanding loans in three major federal programs--GSIs, federally insured student loans (FISL) and national direct student loans (NDSL)--comes from GSI debts and student holders who graduated during the 1970s, said Hastings. "The phones are already starting to ring," he said...