Word: bulking
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...bulk of the money--perhaps as much as $35,000--would presumably fund minority, struggling, or generally less visible campus organizations. But Harvard itself nominally recognizes its responsibility to support such groups--as it should in an academic community that prides itself on its diversity of thought and interests--by providing the dean of students with discretionary funds for just such purposes. A powerful student council should tap these funds and challenge the dean's authority to dispense then autonomously, instead of asking students to pay a second time for what their tuition already entitles them...
Riedel--who left Yale in 1977 and is currently on leave from a tenured post at the University of Washington--was charged last month with responsibility for obtaining $42.003 in federal money for the Health Benefits Plan with phony vouchers and then improperly diverting the bulk of the money into research projects he and his wife were working on at Yale, the Yale Daily News reported last week...
Counter explains the low profile the Foundation has kept so far, saying "it requires a lot of basic organization, and that's what I've been working on for the last semester." The result of this work is six student committees, which will form the bulk of the Foundation. The committees will conform to the Foundation's "two-pronged effort" by both mediating and negotiating instances of racial tension on campus, and also working to promote minority culture on campus...
BECAUSE HE DEVOTES the bulk of Truth . . . And Consequences to tracing the wins and losses of the seven heroes who spoke their minds, Mitchell can never pinpoint precisely why so few Americans are brave enough to speak out. However, citing a recent trend towards making more government officials accountable for their actions, the author optimistically notes...
...badness.' "Agreed: there are those who simply don't like big business and who would freely use the antitrust laws to enact their views, However, a closer look reveals a large, reliable body of scholarship, which demonstrates the adverse consequences of one of a few firms controlling the bulk of a market--irrespective of their conduct. Ironically, for example, some firms in difficult-to-enter markets gain high profits which are unrelated to superior business practices or R&D. The general idea is that monopoly or oligopoly in their own right, leading as they do to economic waste and relatively...