Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simply faith. Tom Allan, 36, is a program-control supervisor for Raytheon in Portsmouth, R.I. Much of Raytheon's work is military, but Allan refuses to believe that nuclear war is possible. "I think the people of the world will prevent it," he says, "the everyday people, the bulk of the populace of the world. I don't think anyone really wants to have a head-to-head confrontation that might result in something that could annihilate the entire world...
...grounds for criticism: reporting from Washington tends, inevitably, to be highly speculative and to rely heavily on anonymous sources and undocumented assertions. Critics also fault the capital's press corps for preoccupation with politics and frequent failure to delve into the performance of government agencies, which spend the bulk of the nation's budget...
...clear from the opening faceoff who was going to do the bulk of the work. The Terriers carried the puck right into the Harvard zone and stayed there. And stayed And stayed Throughout the period Blair had to lend off a barrage of B.U. shots, mostly from the perimeter...
...donations and the Harvard Administration. Harvard University has benefited from conditions in South African through its protfolio of stocks. The menetary benefits can be computed by calculating the dividend return from the South African exposure and multiplying this amount by the time period such stocks have been held. The bulk of the money should be used to establish the center. The remaining amount should be used to expand the scholarship fund to enable more black South Africans to come to Harvard...
...city received $3,616,000 in state aid, of which $117,800 has already been spent. Healy recommended that the bulk of the remaining $3,498,200, be spent on four sizeable allocations...