Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bulk of Stimpson's contribution to this championship team, however, has occurred away from the court Coaches Jack Barnaby and Prisoilla Pool both praise the 21-year-old senior for being a steadying influence on the team. "She has added a tremendous amount of stability to the team because of her maturity and her ability to take things so cooly." Pool says of Stimpson. This maturity and coolness under pressure has been instrumental in leading the racquetwomen...
...many Congressmen, cutting big-ticket items now may seem more trouble than it is worth, because the bulk of the outlays will not come for years. But even in 1983, the spending for the major new weapons will be significant, paling only when compared with the looming deficit. It will be far more difficult, and far more expensive, to choose among the major projects after billions have been spent on each of them. Here are the three big-ticket items that will be the center of the congressional defense debate, and how each affects the budget...
...football season, Murrer tips the scales at 225 lbs a weight he says hurts his feet when he runs. But even though this tremendous bulk hampers Murrer's running somewhat, it also makes overtaking him in a race a difficult feat for his opponents...
...most extensive record of his inner life, and quoting liberally therefrom, he is not obtrusive. His analytical passages seem to have been inserted into the narrative with maximum concern for short. American attention spans; they are humble and mostly insightful, free of excessive jargon-mongering, aware of the crushing bulk of Kafka criticism and content to suggest the clearest connections to the immediate moment of his life. If there are any complaints, they are that he is sometimes a bit oversolicitous and that he reminds us too often of Kafka's literary identification with animals. Although that is a recurrent...
...more than $1,000 to make Detroit-built cars more competitive with Japanese imports. The union, though, was unwilling to consider benefit reductions large enough to make those car price cuts. It refused to consider a drop in the hourly wage of $10.19, which makes up the bulk of the estimated $19.65 total compensation package. Fraser was also forced to bargain with the knowledge that any settlement would have to be approved by militant rank-and-file workers, who seemed unwilling to make major concessions. Two weeks ago, union members voted 57% to 43% to reopen the talks, and there...