Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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RANCHO SANTA FE, California: The Benedictine monks painstakingly hand-copied manuscripts so that their order could sustain itself self-sustaining revenue from within its walls. The Higher Source made web sites. In a sprawling, spotless mansion packed with bulk food and computer hardware, at least forty modern-day monks designed and built web sites for businesses on the outside, including the San Diego Polo Club, a movie company, and a British maker of airline parts. On Wednesday, in three neatly planned shifts, they died. The world saw Jonestown, felt Waco, and cried cult. And this time, a cult...
...wrong; it has been done before; I'll never do it again. When that wasn't enough, Gore made his stand on higher ground: he needed to be re-elected for the good of the country: "Our economy is roaring. Inflation is low. Crime is down." But the bulk of the press conference was a painful litany of legalisms and evasions and long pauses while his moral hard drive rebooted. "Everything that I did I understood to be lawful," the Vice President whirred. "I think the entire episode constitutes further reasons why there should be campaign-finance reform...
...HAGUE: For a moral victory, it was a bittersweet one. Denounced worldwide as the thugs behind the bulk of Bosnia's war crimes, Bosnian Serbs Tuesday were cast as the victims, detailing horrific scenes of gang rape, torture and murder at the hands of Muslim a nd Croatian prison officials for a hushed United Nations tribunal. The trial of three Muslims and one Croat is the first collective war crimes trial since the end of World War II and the first to judge rape as a war crime. Seventy-six witnesses will make the trip from Yugoslavia to testify before...
...this service allows you to find a good match very quickly. For me, countless interviews showed me exactly what I did NOT want to do, but in the end I found one job that seems to be a terrific match. Also, while banks and consulting firms do comprise the bulk of recruiters, there are a number of different types of companies who participate in the recruiting process, as well...
...boomers leading the way, the demand for stock has soared in the face of a dwindling number of shares--a textbook prescription for prices to head north. Investors pumped more than $220 billion into stock mutual funds in 1996, nearly double the $128 billion registered in 1995. The bulk of the new money represents "patient" capital from boomers saving up for retirement, according to the Investment Company Institute, the mutual-fund-industry trade group. And the trend keeps getting stronger. Some $24 billion of fresh money flowed into stock mutual funds in January, double the amount for the previous month...