Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While it appears that lobbyists may ultimately extricate colleges from the bulk of the tax-reform bill, both it and the research settlement will prove quite costly to Harvard in the long run. Tax-free bonds have been an extremely inexpensive form of paying for major construction projects, and as part of the research settlement, the University will have to spend money to design and maintain better accounting systems for research grants...
...bulk of the repairs will involve replacing the concrete fins with 1300 aluminum fins. Already, about 250 of these supports have been removed in favor of wooden supports, though officials say most of the work will be done this spring and summer...
Wylie said he would be "surprised if it's [his total] the highest," adding that the bulk of the contributions went to "the preparation and distribution of issue-oriented material...
...When he was out and about during a stint as liaison officer to the British peace-keeping troops, First Lieut. Lee Marlow of Nashville found to his surprised pleasure that "people in Beirut seemed friendly. They waved and said hello." But now he and everyone else must spend the bulk of their time hunkered down. "It's mostly boring, really," says one of the riflemen guarding a road to the main coastal highway. Marlow agrees. "You really can't go anywhere," he says...
Indeed, mounting anxieties over NATO'S plans to deploy Pershing II and cruise missiles in Western Europe beginning in December took on a heightened urgency last week, especially in the nation scheduled to receive the bulk of the new firepower, West Germany. While organizers were putting the final touches on plans for coordinated demonstrations across Western Europe this week, Moscow was doing its best to turn up the diplomatic pressure on the government of Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Soviet spokesmen forcefully renewed threats to pull out of the Geneva arms talks and to begin an aggressive new round...