Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beyond their entryway to find academic counseling. Yet, don't think it's taboo to ask your proctor academic questions even if he or she is not your official adviser. Advisers will hold more formal discussions than proctors. Many of these concern concentration course and even career choices. The bulk of their work comes at the start of the semester when advisers schedule individual meetings with freshmen to help them choose courses as well as to sign their study cards...
...Bits and pieces of the wreckage plucked from the sea were sometimes heartbreaking: a red slipper, a limp rag doll, a waterlogged Teddy bear. Irish and British naval vessels and helicopters fanned out over a 5-sq.-mi. area. They retrieved 131 bodies, and by week's end the bulk of the wreckage had been located...
...local fabric. Some 3,000 U.S. border patrol agents maintain the southern frontier, yet INS officials admit that with bolstered forces the U.S. could significantly reduce the illegal traffic. Despite its length, much of the U.S.-Mexican border is blocked by huge expanses of desert and mountainous terrain. The bulk of illegal traffic centers on only about seven crossings; an estimated 60% of all illegals enter the U.S. near the cities of Chula Vista, Calif., and El Paso, Texas. Says INS Commissioner Nelson: "There will always be some illegal immigration. But we can and must enhance control of the border...
...most distinguished is North Point Press, whose volumes are models of polish and elegance: many of its paperbacks have dust jackets. The house was founded seven years ago by Real Estate Millionaire William Turnbull, 59, and Bookstore Owner and former Salesman Jack Shoemaker, 39. Turnbull, whose bulk and authority give him the aura of an editorial-cartoon plutocrat, chose the name because "if you know which way north is you can't get lost." The firm moved into a converted church and rectory in Berkeley in January 1980. The quarters were chosen, says the founder, "because we knew we would...
Whitley wasn't supposed to do much netminding in her rookie campaign--the bulk of the keeping chores were to rest on the able shoulders of fifth-year senior Janet Judge, who had returned from an injury suffered in the first game of the 1983 season...