Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...told each other what we had heard from our jock friends--that Nautilus builds strength but not bulk, that its easy to use, and that it was great for our cardio-vascular systems. We talkedabout howvital physical fitness was and about how this year was going to be different. We vowed to stick with Nautilus...
...search for more domestic energy comes at a time when Saudi Arabia, the U.S.'s principal foreign supplier of crude, is once again showing its clout in world oil. That country last week paid an estimated $2 billion to buy the remaining 40% of Aramco, which produces the bulk of Saudi oil, from a consortium of four American oil producers, Exxon, Mobil, Texaco and Standard Oil of California. Americans will continue working for Aramco, but only in technical and managerial roles. The kingdom's Oil Minister, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, is also reported to have told British Foreign...
...penalty was mild, he said, since white-owned firms continue to get the vast bulk of the nation's construction business, and Congress can legitimately require innocent whites to "share the burden" of making up for past discrimination so long as that burden is not unreasonable. In a concurring opinion, Justices Blackmun, Brennan and Marshall put less stress on the powers of Congress and more on the general principle that society must, in Marshall's words, promote "meaningful equality of opportunity, not an abstract version of equality in which the effects of past discrimination would be forever frozen...
Where others authors and the bulk of Helen's own writings paint pictures of a one-sided woman, Lash struggles to look beneath her physicial impairments. He fails of course, to escape the conclusion that everyone draws about Helen: here was a child, a woman, an actress of sorts who, in the words of one contemporary, knew "absolutely nothing of the unkindness, hostility, narrow-mindedness, hatefulness and wickedness of the world around her." It is the tale of a woman who, as Lash writes, "spoke the language of love. Despite the deprevation of sight and hearing...she was made...
...basic cause of the Soviet energy problem is geography. The bulk of the nation's population-and most of its industry-is in the western half of the country. The major oil reserves, as well as the sites most likely to yield new supplies, lie thousands of miles away, in Siberia. Getting the oil from where it is to where it is needed requires more railroads and pipelines than the U.S.S.R. possesses or will be able to build in the near future...