Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than Flynn. To win he would need to sweep the black vote again and pick up at least 30% of the city's white vote, which is 12% more than Harold Washington took when he won the mayoral race in Chicago. Flynn, meanwhile, is expected to attract the bulk of Finnegan's votes as well as maintain his overwhelming support among fellow working-class Irish Americans in neighborhoods like his South Boston home district...
Contrary to the public image of dinosaurs as the Edsels of evolution, says Colbert, they were extraordinarily well-adapted creatures. They inhabited every corner of the world and ranged in bulk from the chicken-size Compsognathus to the 100-ton Brachiosaurus, the largest creature ever to trod the earth. Though they plodded through swamps and shallow coastal waters, they were essentially land bound. Some ambled on all fours; others scampered after prey on their lower limbs. Some may have lived a century or more...
...skirmishing is more genteel, although no less forceful. Some experts, for example, have contended vigorously that dinosaurs must have been warm-blooded, like mammals and birds, in order to have mustered the internal heat, or energy, for an active, land-based life. Colbert disagrees. He explains that their bulk alone would have enabled large dinosaurs to retain body heat...
...words like a chorus of people who get called on in class and haven't done the reading. The only people actually singing were those carefully following song sheets the band had distributed, and a few singing group members who had been forced to learn the words. But the bulk of the partisans moved their lips, talked with friends or put bottles in their mouths to mask their utter fight song illiteracy...
Scientists have known for a decade that ethylene dibromide, a pesticide and gasoline additive, is one of the most powerful known carcinogens. The bulk of the 300 million Ibs. the U.S. produces annually is used to keep leaded gasoline from fouling auto engines. Because the chemical is added at refineries in a closed system and breaks down during engine combustion, such use is considered safe enough. The danger comes from agricultural practice: growers inject it into citrus grove soils to control rootworms, and exporters fumigate some $29 million worth of fruit with it to meet foreign quarantine laws...