Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...instance, let's say that scientists have discovered a startling new source of low-calorie roughage. In a report to the Great Neck Ear, Eye and Throat Consortium, Drs. Hugo and Margot Frodo explained "Ground glass provides the gritty texture crucial to a person's roughage intake. Consumed in bulk, we predict that glass will improve regularity without fear of cholesterol accumulation...
When Witkowski goes to the air, he'll be looking for classmates Bill Reggio and Don Lewis. Another junior, tailback Jim McHale, is expected to do the bulk of the Lions' rushing...
...buyer to help offset printing and distribution costs. By comparison, agencies siphon off so much of the subscriber's payment that the magazine loses money on each copy. But the increase in readership is supposed to enable publishers to recoup through higher advertising rates. Saturday Review got the bulk of its readers through agencies, said a former editor, "because we wanted to K8 get consumer advertising, liquor, tobacco, automobiles, and the minimum circulation I for that seems to be about 450,000." Despite exceeding that goal, SR still failed to at tract sufficient advertising...
...concrete bulk of the building is painted pale yellow and dotted with even rows of square windows. It is decorated with seven-story-high terra cotta pilasters, set against mirror glass and capped by what looks like the metal spout of a sugar box. Above the pilasters, on the front facade, is a five-story-high keystone that is topped off by what Graves calls a baldachino, a sort of lookout. On two sides the building is garnished with masonry garlands. At first these garlands were to be metallic fluttering-in-the-wind affairs, but the city council vetoed them...
...efforts to help bring stability to the Middle East, the U.S. must find a solution to the Palestinian issue on terms acceptable not merely to Israel but to the bulk of the Arab world as well. Israel's security can be maintained without thwarting the Palestinian drive for self-determination. The Israelis tend to equate this drive with "terrorism." But terrorism is only the ugly and dangerous symptom of the underlying issue of Palestinian autonomy that the West has faced up to only rarely in the past 34 years...