Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Japs came in from the southeast over Diamond Head. Civilians' estimates of their numbers ranged from 50 to 150. They whined over Waikiki, over the candy-pink bulk of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. Some were big four-motored jobs, some dive-bombers, some pursuits. All that they met as they came in was a tiny private plane in which Lawyer Ray Buduick was out for a Sunday morning ride. They riddled the plane with machine-gun bullets, but the lawyer succeeded in landing. By the time he did, bombs were thudding all around the city. The first reported casualty...
...success or failure of Vatican II cannot be judged merely by the bulk of written documents. More important is the spirit that brought the council together and inspired its discussions. In general, the council indicates a new attitude toward a complex, pluralistic world. Without denying its own belief that it has a special divine mission, Catholicism now acknowledges that it is but one of many spiritual voices with something to tell perplexed modern man. The more the church returns in spirit to the unfettered simplicity of the Gospel from which it sprang, the more likely it is that its voice...
...offices they operated two years ago. Those who are able to make their way to a legal aid office are often turned away. The attorneys are too overworked to handle many of the divorce and child-custody cases, landlord-tenant disputes and other routine problems that are the bulk of their work...
Harvard and MIT own the bulk of the 52 percent of Cambridge land that is tax-exempt, Healy said. The two institutions annually make approximately $1 million in-lieu-of-tax payments to the city, he added. Healy was unable to specify the exact value of the land the universities...
...checkbook these days. During the past two weeks, the company promised to pay $117 million in back dividends on preferred stock, scheduled a $250 million payment to its pension fund and reached a $1 billion wage deal with the United Auto Workers. That settlement returns to Chrysler workers the bulk of the paybacks the union employees had given to keep the company afloat...