Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only had the GOP ousted the bulk of the Senate's liberal old guard--headed by the likes of Sens. George S. McGovern (D-S.D.), Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), and Frank Church (D-Idaho)--but it had also gained a majority in the house (53-47) for the first time since...
...bulk of the tax cuts will end up not in the pockets of low and middle income taxpayers but instead in the bulging wallets of corporate executives and stockholders. Residential property owners would receive only 57 per cent of the benefits of the tax cuts, with the balance going to industry. And in older, poorer cities like Cambridge, which largely depend on industry for their tax base, only 43 per cent of the total reductions would benefit residential homeowners...
...says he did not ask Klitgaard "to investigate the abilities or performance of particular groups of students--either by sex, race, or religion." But in effect that is what the bulk of Klitgaard's report does, making statements about different groups' relative performance and success on tests and in college and basing these statements only on group identity--Jewish, Black or female, for example--and ignoring any number of other relevant factors that together make each applicant an individual. These conclusions understandably insult students whom the report reduces to faceless members of arbitrarily isolated applicant groups...
...essence of these worlds, their "inner weave," lies in their details. "One should notice and fondle details," he says. "There is nothing wrong about the moonshine of generalization when it comes after the sunny trifles of the book have been lovingly collected." The bulk of these lectures consists of rapt, minute scrutiny of such trifles. Nabokov does a virtual time-and-motion study of the daylong "dance of fate" between Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Joyce's Ulysses. He reads volumes into Flaubert's use of the word and in Madame Bovary. Under his microscope, the "flushed...
...opponent named Vane, squaring off for the title of chief magistrate. "The adherents," a chronicler reports, "gathered in force and excitement ran high so violence was feared. At the height of the tumult, the Rev. John Wilson, pastor of the Boston Church, despite his 49 years and large bulk, climbed into the old oak and from his point of vantage addressed the people to such good purpose that quiet was restored and the election proceeded." Winthrop won, but he and his followers returned to Cambridge only sporadically over the years, usually to meet in Harvard Hall when smallpox outbreaks threatened...