Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bulk of the jump in the endowment--the largest of any American university--comes from what Harvard's chief investment officer called a 17-to-18-percent increase in the return on Harvard's portfolio of stocks and bonds in the last two months...
...bulk of the jump in Harvard's endowment--the largest of any American university--comes from what Harvard's chief vestment official called a 17-to-18 percent increase in the return on Harvard's portfolio of stocks and bonds in the last three months...
More salvage work remains to be done. In lifting the bulk of the Mary Rose's remains, a 6-ft. section of the warship's bow was deliberately severed as a safety precaution. After the sections are rejoined, the painstaking work of finally preserving the Mary Rose could take several years. Nonetheless, the rescuers of the Mary Rose hope that their precious find can go on display as early as next year in Portsmouth, at a drydock close to Lord Nelson's famous flagship H.M.S. Victory. Says Discoverer McKee: "This is a dream come true." - By George...
...view. Early dust-jacket photographs and publicity stills caught the young novelist and poet as a newly fledged bird, all beak, startled eyes and unruly plumage. In his 30s, happily domesticated and the father of four children, he lived and went on working in Ipswich, Mass. He added some bulk to his frame and bibliography...
...Mass. Ave., which is attached to a French publishing concern, says the book is now available in every bookstore in France. Moreau, the publisher, told the Boston Globe this month that he had "never had such a response from the public" in 45 years in the business. "The bulk" of the 500 letters of reaction he had received were from "elderly people wanting to know where they could buy the book...