Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reich's industrial policy is attractive in the abstract, but critics charge that it would face pitfalls in practice. For one thing, the bulk of Government aid is likely to go to old industries with great political clout (steel or autos) rather than to emerging ones (computers and robotics). This has often been the experience in Europe. Says Michael Wachter, an economic adviser to President Carter: "France and Germany have made their hi-tech sectors weaker with government help. Those industries become more dependent on their governments for support, and the help proves to be something negative, not positive...
...Assistant Deans of the College working in University Hall (often known as baby deans) to the Senior Tutors in the Houses and to make the Senior Tutors members of the Board. That act transformed the Board because the Senior Tutors, along with the Dean of Freshman, immediately became the bulk of the membership of the Board and held the majority of the votes. This change was significant because it placed responsibility for enforcing rules and granting exceptions to them in the hands of a group of people very closely involved with undergraduates. Because Senior Tutors lived in the Houses...
...policy emphasis of the speech was the president's opposition to the nuclear freeze--the bulk of it merely an intensification of his standard anti-freeze position. The president did refer to the Soviet Union as an "evil empire," but in general the speech recalled his address to the British Parliament last June, in which he called for an effort to promote democracy throughout the world. Most of the net effect of the evangelical convention speech, therefore, was political, silencing those on the New Right who have wondered whether the President has forgotten them. Just as commentators on Chinese affairs...
...charge and countercharge it is sometimes hard to remember that this is a very large battle over very small sums. The bulk of the $115 million a week collected by N.C.C. member churches goes to good works, and even in the modest portion of the budgets dealing with political controversy, only a fraction goes to disputed causes. But Theologian Carl EH. Henry, an I.R.D. board member, observes, no doubt accurately, that many Protestants object to helping Marxists with even a single penny: "It's like virginity. You don't lose it in percentages...
...crowning irony is that for all its imposing bulk, the Bradley is so cramped that only six soldiers can squeeze into it with the commander, driver and gunner. The M113 will carry eleven. The Bradley, sums up Paul Hoven of the Washington-based Project on Military Procurement, "is an infantry fighting vehicle with almost no room for the infantry...