Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University planners have still been unable to secure state approval for installing the diesel engines which will produce the bulk of that electricity. Community groups in the Misison Hill and Brookline area have argued that the plant's diesels will spew dangerous nitrous oxides and carcinogens into their backyards. A series of state agency recommendations and rulings handed down this year have done nothing but further delay a project that is already several years late...
...swimmers themselves will try to salvage whatever continuity exists. The year's freshmen, who composed the bulk of a talent-laden squad, proved a new breed of aquawomen. Harder working and more serious about their sport, most of them should return for at least a year. Several names stand prominently in the foreground of future expectations. Butterflyers Norma Barton and Kathleen McCloskey, sprinter Janie Smith, and distance freestyler Maureen Gildea come instantly to mind...
...basketball coach Frank McLaughlin says he would favor pre-Christmas exams, calling them especially beneficial for the freshmen who would enter the bulk of a long season with their first set of exams behind them. McLaughlin says athletes would undoubtedly have to return during that mid-winter break to play a portion of their schedule...
Under Bolger's new rate schedule, second-class postage for nationally circulated magazines and newspapers, which has rocketed more than 400% since 1970, would rise by an additional 1.9%. Third-class postage for catalogues and some bulk mail would increase by 17.7%. Bolger acknowledges that the increases may cause Americans to make less use of the mails. Said he: "To the extent that higher rates discourage people and businesses from using the mails, they invite inroads from our growing and increasingly aggressive competitors...
Radcliffe opened with a power 20 and took a slim two-seat lead over Brown. Rowing at the strong pace of 35 strokes per minute for the bulk of the 1200-meter race, Radcliffe slowly increased the margin by taking occasional power tens...