Word: bulking
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Although the RRC draws its executive committee and the bulk of its affiliates from Harvard, MIT, Tufts University, Fletcher School of Diplomacy and other area colleges, some fellows regularly travel from as far as Brown University to participate in the program. In addition, Harvard selects about 20 "research appointees" each year. Because of Widener's extensive and well catalogued Russian and Soviet collection (which includes such gems as the Trotsky archive), the center has been able to attract top scholars and speakers from throughout the United States and Europe...
...since the Islamic legion had intervened, "peace and calm" had been restored to N'Djamena after nine months of bloody civil strife. Indeed, with the .exception of an occasional gunshot or the roar of a Libyan jet fighter wheeling overhead, within the capital an eerie quiet reigns. The bulk of the residents who fled N'Djamena when fighting broke out between Oueddei supporters and the rival forces of former Defense Minister Hissène Habré do not seem convinced that the danger is past. Each morning, canoes ferry thousands of women across the muddy, slow-moving Chari...
...will have a hard time convincing frustrated voters that they want further cutbacks on social programs and money spent on defense. Either way, Weicker figures Dolan will shoot his political wad too early on non-economic issues such as abortion, prayer in schools, and the Panama Canal treaty. "The bulk of the people are too busy worrying about paychecks to be distracted over the long run by the single-issue movement," Weicker says...
...pass along--usually very little. The biggest winners of all were the corporate property owners: Pacific Telephone saves $130 million; Pacific Gas $91 million; and Standard Oil saved $13.1 million in one county alone. In short, Kuttner writes, "unfortunately, in Proposition 13 and most of the other remedies the bulk of the tax relief went to those who needed it least...
...renewed volatility in currency values was unsettling because such gyrations make it difficult for international businessmen to negotiate a loan or sales contract, or even to project the cost of a company payroll. The bulk of international transactions is made in dollars, and an unstable currency makes all planning difficult. Moreover, some experts wondered if the new situation of a strengthening dollar would quickly be followed by a weakening of the U.S. currency. But Italian Economist Luigi Spaventa challenges this view, arguing: "The underlying causes appear to be far stronger than in previous cycles of the dollar...