Word: bulking
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...last area in the city that can possibly be reserved for some type of blue collar manufacturing, they don't want to see MIT commit the entire area to white collar office space. The residents also argue that they have the right to request limits on the height and bulk of the new structures, because the buildings will affect the quality of life in their area...
...SALVADOR doesn't sell newspapers like it used to. A civil war still rages there, but the bulk of mainstream media editorials and news stories in the last few months have shifted their focus to other wars, other crises. Perhaps Americans have a limited attention span; perhaps the nightly television news reports about the war started to look like re-runs. In any case, two new documentaries about the turmoil--and the first such films actually made by Salvadorans--will be shown in Cambridge this weekend, and they provide a view of the conflict which it is hard to imagine...
While OPIC has never lost money, it has paid off some hefty insurance claims. OPIC paid $316 million to ITT, Anaconda and 13 other U.S. firms whose property was expropriated in 1971 by Chile's Salvador Allende, but expects to recover the bulk of that from the present Chilean government. Firms driven out of Iran in 1979 have received an additional $14.5 million from OPIC, whose total liability to them could reach $40 million...
...majors (up from 38% a decade earlier), in contrast to 11% in social sciences, 7% in biological sciences, 6% in the arts and 4% in physical sciences. Rich and prestigious private universities can resist this rush toward vocational training, but public and smaller private colleges are more vulnerable. "The bulk of the institutions will have to give in to a form of consumerism," says U.C.L.A.'s Astin, "in that they need applicants and will therefore have to offer students what they want...
McGrath compiled an impressive 100 yards passing during his 15 minutes on the field, but the bulk of that yardage came on the Harvard secondary's only big breakdown of the afternoon--a 24-yard pass from the UMass 31 that Mangarelli carried another 45 yards...