Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reduce imaginative writing to the sum of its crimes against humanity, losing sight of the ambiguous and magical ways in which novels, poems and plays really operate. (To make matters worse, a lot of that criticism is written in indigestible nuggets like "reification" and "de-contextualizing.") Says Alter: "The bulk of academics cut their eyeteeth in the student revolution. They keep pushing the impulse to transform the country by transforming their students...
...Agriculture Department study, food wasted in U.S. retail stores, restaurants and homes amounted to a whopping 96 billion pounds in 1995. Recovery of just five percent of that food would have provided enough for 4 million people to eat, the study estimates. Homes and restaurants accounted for the bulk of the waste: grocery stores tossed out 5.4 billion pounds of food. While publicly aghast at the spoilage, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman is mostly satisfied with providing a food recovery hotline (1-800-GLEAN-IT)and such non-profit organizations as Second Harvest to distribute the bounty to the needed...
...Agriculture Department study, food wasted in U.S. retail stores, restaurants and homes amounted to a whopping 96 billion pounds in 1995. Recovery of just five percent of that food would have provided enough for 4 million people to eat, the study estimates. Homes and restaurants accounted for the bulk of the waste: grocery stores tossed out 5.4 billion pounds of food. While publicly aghast at the spoilage, Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman is mostly satisfied with providing a food recovery hotline (1-800-GLEAN-IT)and such non-profit organizations as Second Harvest to distribute the bounty to the needed...
While he earned a law degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1978, the bulk of Ma's career has been spent as an editor...
...June 17, 1972, five days after he was sworn in, the Watergate break-in was discovered and the World War II veteran began to spending the bulk of his time dealing with a morass of emerging cover...