Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come from a $10 surcharge on each undergraduate's term bill, would include $20,000 for the council's own expenses, such as publishing a newsletter, hiring a part-time secretary, and buying office supplies. Another $5000 would be used to sponsor campus-wide concerts and social events. The bulk of the money, about $35,000, would be distributed by the council to other Harvard student organizations...
...effectively carry out its professed intent. Even if the Corporation, as it has said it will, sends a disapproving letter to management explaining its vote, the abstention at Mobil officially registers Harvard as having no opinion regarding the practice of a company that publicly justifies its continued bulk, long-term contracts with the South African military and police. The Corporation's objections in this case and in many past, similar situations, make no sense, given the realities of the corporate structures that allow resolutions from individual shareholders to be considered...
...actually knew very little about and at the same time to retain the newsmagazine approach." Before writing the main story, Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott made his sixth visit to the U.S.S.R., becoming the first Western journalist to tour the Central Asian republics after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The bulk...
...spend the money provided by the tax cut, thus encouraging more demand in the economy and fueling inflation. Says Stanford University Economist Michael Boskin, one of the earliest supporters of supply-side economics: "The President's tax cut will simply not have a large impact on savings. The bulk of the effect will be to increase spending." Adds Democratic Economist Lester Thurow of M.I.T.: "The Reagan tax cut is simply not supply-side economics. Only about 6% of it would be saved at all, and we simply cannot afford to waste $94 out of every...
Mobil has defended its sales, declaring that the requirements of the resolution would force the company into being "an irresponsible citizen," since "the great bulk of the work of both the police and the military...is for the benefit" of all South Africans...