Word: bulking
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Houston reporter about half his size, and losing control of a speedboat that killed two bystanders. The bulk of Pastorini's talents will no doubt be strained to the utmost, along with his pectorals, by his role in Voyagers!, a man-lost-in-time rehash. It will require him to look mean and wield a big sword. Is it possible to typecast an actor so early in his career...
...bulk of the extra funds could go towards salary increases for the city's union workers. Healy, who will be negotiating with most of the municipal employee unions during the summer, said the additional aid could make bargaining tougher. "They [the unions] read the papers too, and they'll figure with all this extra money, I should give them a new pay raise," he added...
...private and community hospitals, efforts are under way to curb costs as much as possible. At the Nashville-based Hospital Corporation of America, which operates some 360 hospitals across the U.S., officials now cut costs by buying everything from adhesive bandages to building steel in train-and truckload bulk quantities. For H.C.A.'s average 200-bed hospital, that means annual savings of $400,000 to $500,000 in operating costs...
After discussing strategy with Phalangist leaders over tea at Baabda's town hall, Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon issued a call for Syria's 85th Brigade to withdraw from the Beirut vicinity and join the bulk of Syrian forces in the Bekaa Valley to the east. Damascus abruptly rejected the demand, insisting that unlike the Israeli occupation troops, Syrian forces had been dispatched to Lebanon as part of an Arab peace-keeping contingent in 1976 with the approval of the local government. Sputtered an angry Syrian official: "We do not, I repeat, do not tolerate ultimatums from that...
These are among the findings of a public opinion survey conducted this month for TIME by the research firm Yankelovich, Skelly & White, Inc.* As has been the case throughout his presidency, it is Reagan's personal appeal and not his policies that accounts for the bulk of his popularity. But lately, the poll shows, he is thought to be doing somewhat better on the job. This perception apparently stems from the exposure he got on his trip abroad and his overtures to the Soviet Union about starting disarmament talks. The President has also worked hard in recent months...