Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...These are things that we are seeking because this is a dangerous world and [the Soviets] constitute the bulk of that danger in the world. An act of this kind reveals how easily there could be an accidental start to conflict. It is important that we work as hard as we can to reduce the threat hanging over the world which is contained in the present imbalance of weaponry-their superiority in that weaponry...
...four retired Secretaries of State. And in the background loomed the U.S.-Soviet talks about Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF), due to pick up again in Geneva this week, and Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), scheduled to resume next month. For a President who has so far devoted the bulk of his energies to domestic affairs, it added up to a full foreign agenda indeed...
This spring the ACSR spent the bulk of its time debating the issue of Harvard's investments in companies with ties to South Africa. The Committee's deliberations and the Corporation's response to the outcome of those deliberations vividly illustrated the doubly frustrating character of the ACSR's activities...
This type of assistance actually started 30 years ago, when the Business School sent experts abroad to teach management techniques to try and stabilize the nascent economies of post-war France and Italy. But the bulk of the work in the ensuing era sought to change the world through more direct means...
...pressure can only reap disaster. National Public Radio does an exceptional job of what it knows how to do: produce news and arts programs. The network proved less adopt as a business enterprise. The two functions, it would seem, are contradictory almost by definition (at least judging by the bulk of commercial radio). Free enterprise has fostered a lot of developments, but artistic quality has never been one of them. It's why artists found patrons, why scholars seek tenure, and probably why the federal government funded NPR in the first place...