Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...range of crises Placers are called upon to deal with is enormous, from family problems, child abuse and wife battering to conflicts over alcohol, drugs and sexuality, to depression, loneliness, and potential suicides. All services are free, and the bulk of the work is done by 80 volunteers, who have gone through intensive Place training sessions. There are only 9 paid staffers, 3 full-timers, and 6 part-timers, all of whom volunteer the extra hours needed to keep things running smoothly. This is not a good place to make your fortune...
...film of the 1970s. Benton commits himself early on to the tightly-knit parallel construction and works well within this simple framework--the shopping scene and the breakfast scenes are terrific; but details go unexplored. Why doesn't Ted hire someone to take care of the kid? The bulk of the film develops the growing bond between Ted and Billy. All this time, Joanna presumably ests out in California making love to real estate developers and talking with $500-an-hour shrinks. She disappears from New York with $2000 and a leather purse...18 months later, she is back...
Even if the embargo were to prove largely successful, it is unlikely that anybody in the U.S.S.R. would go hungry. The bulk of the grain from the U.S. is corn, which is fed to livestock. The Kremlin has been striving to build up its herds after a distress slaughter prompted by bad harvests in the mid-1970s. At the moment, Soviet ports and storage areas are crammed with grain, so any embargo would not be felt for a few months. When the grain runs out, the herds would again be slaughtered to feed people. Toward...
Though the guerrillas arrived in alarmingly low numbers during the first few days, an eleventh-hour surge brought some 17,000 fighters-virtually all the guerrillas the British had estimated were in Rhodesia-into the assembly camps by the Jan. 4 deadline. The bulk of the returnees were members of Robert Mugabe's ZANLA forces; the others were ZIPRA troops loyal to Joshua Nkomo. Considering the great physical difficulties faced by the guerrillas, some of whom marched more than a hundred miles over difficult terrain, it was an extraordinarily impressive turnout. Governor Soames, while refusing a Patriotic Front request...
...1970s saw the astrophysical community do for invisible radiation what Galileo had done nearly four centuries earlier for visible light. For the first time. humans now probe the universe in its full grandeur, the bulk of which, it seems, is unaccessible to the eyes that serve us so well on planet Earth...