Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mobil maintains in its official statement opposing the resolution that the "great bulk of the work of both the police and military forces in every country, including South Africa, is for the benefit of all of its inhabitants," The company adds that it would not fulfill an "image of responsible citizenship" in South Africa if it denied supplies to the police and military...
...started off easily enough with the Crimson piling up a 12-point lead during the field events and long-distance races. Crimson rack victories supplied the bulk of the points, but a fourth-place finish by Mary Ellen Finney in the shot put, and third-and fourth-place finishes by Debbie Markson and Beth Cooley in the discus provided essential points for the final tally...
...cold wind swept over the thick dark grass outside, whistled through the moonlit Gothic stonework, the parapets, battlements, and pinnacles intricately crowning the buildings with medieval bulk and solemnity...
...more recently with the Syrians. Lebanese leftists and Palestine Liberation Organization leaders charge that Israel is behind a Christian plot to drive the Syrians out of the Bekaa Valley and link up with Major Haddad's Christian contingent in the South. For this reason, the Syrians positioned the bulk of their 22,000 troops in the Lebanon valley...
...that this is where the civil rights movement of the 1960s has wound up, or down. But as any strict constructionist will adjure, the civil rights laws were enacted to allow for equal chances, not equal smiles; so it should hardly shock the system to learn that, on the bulk of the evidence, official and personal, the American social scene is less mixed now than ever. In the March issue of FORTUNE, Roger Wilkins sees blacks and whites separated by a widening "social chasm." Recent reports of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and of the National Urban League concur...