Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other grace notes on the "best" New York has to offer are contributed by old hands such as Jimmy Breslin, Beverly Sills and Walter Cronkite. But the bulk of the text is prepared by local experts and visiting writers who often have a fresher eye for detail than most natives. In every section, one guiding spirit can be detected: Wurman's childhood hero, Paul Klee. He explains, "Klee's paintings had a shorthand that described action, feeling, color, mood. They were not about painting but communication and visual literacy." The overall technique could be a model for future...
...dramatic change in Reuters' fortunes is only indirectly a result of its journalism. The bulk of the company's revenues, and profits, predicted to reach $98 million for 1984, come from a high-tech version of the original business started by Paul Julius Reuter in 1850: the deli very of financial news between the Prussian town of Aachen and Brussels by carrier pigeon. Reuters has become a prime worldwide supplier, with clients in 112 countries, of electronically transmitted, up-to-the-minute data about currency exchange rates, commodity prices, stocks, bonds, even the availability of tanker space...
...plays. Although local Harvard Clubs often solicit funds from their members for local student scholarships, the development office blankets alumni with waves of solicitation. The office, as a result, has a symbiotic relationship with the other organizations, like the class committees. Because the development office takes care of the bulk of the fund-raising, the other organizations make clear their main purpose is not fundraising...
...bulk of them are effective." Verba says of the University's staff of some 900 TF's. But he adds that "I don't deny there is some bad teaching going...
...year at Harvard in Nepal on a study abroad program. "I'd always wanted to go but it just seemed more of a dream, rather than something I could go and get credit for and save money doing--because it's much cheaper than going here." He spent the bulk of his stay living in Katmandu with a family that didn't speak any English, studying many aspects of the country's culture and learning Nepali...