Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hitch up the horses to the wagon and draw out the milk in cans to the nearest hard road to be collected. That would go on for six weeks every year. Roads got better once they had to get the buses through to these consolidated schools. And the bulk truck comes every day to pick up the milk. Everything's changed...
...foundation's report excoriated the NEH for funding "grant proposals whose character is at best faddishly innovative," and warned against "federalizing" the nation's cultural programs and institutions. "The NEH," the policy study said, "must not become the fat boy in the canoe, likely by its bulk to upset the delicate balance between public and private support...
...rich people and kids who don't really want to go to college don't get financial aid. But that does not excuse the president of Harvard for sloppiness. He deserves the flood of criticism that resulted from his creative remarks, a deluge that, unfortunately, all but obscured the bulk of his message a well-researched, rhetorically admirable polemic in favor of federal support for higher education...
...addition to the 75 layoffs, the budget does not fill 60 currently vacant positions. The bulk of the manpower cuts comes from the public works department, which will lose 60 positions--44 through layoffs...
...result, published in a fact-crammed, 1,010-page volume by Oxford University Press, is nothing less than a tour of considerable force: the World Christian Encyclopedia. Although the bulk of Barrett's information concerns Christianity, it also provides a rich assortment of data on all of the world's great faiths. It has LIFE magazine-size pages, endless charts and graphs, numerous illustrations and enough credibility in its facts, conclusions and methodology to make it a bench mark in our understanding of the true religious state of the planet. Even for as zealous a researcher as Barrett...