Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Noting the sharp spike in juvenile deaths in recent years, Clinton said: "We have to give the future back to all of our children. We cannot ... keep allowing our young people to die before their dreams ever have a chance to take shape. We know gangs often buy in bulk from a single shadowy supplier. We need a national campaign to cut off the flow." Some cities have already moved to battle teen crime with pilot versions of the federal plan launched Monday, most of which have been largely successful. In New York, for instance, federal agents found that...
...bulk of the field trips my elementary school classes took were to Lexington and Concord to tour the early battlefields of the revolution. The first poem I learned to memorize as a child was Longfellow's "Midnight Ride of Paul Revere...
Clearly, on all levels I am pretty anxious to start my job in two weeks. I have been having fantasies about being able to get up early and leave the apartment for the bulk of the day. But now I know what I had left out of all of my childhood dreams about having a career and homemaking. Whereas in my fifth-grade mind, Career Woman perhaps had a valet to pick up after her, I am now facing the harsh reality that when I start work, I am still going to have all the housework to do in July...
...roommates believe that I do nothing all day. "But what about all that laundry?" I want to shout. "Don't you notice how shiny the kitchen counters look and how many clean dishes we have in the cabinets?" my heart asks. Somehow I have managed to spend the bulk of the time they are gone doing one aspect of housework or another. Just about the only thing I haven't been doing is all the reading and relaxing and writing I had set out to do. The only difference between my day and my mother's is that she does...
...minutes when, without warning, he explodes down the runway. His legs blur into the scorching stride of a 100-m sprinter, but his upper body is like no sprinter's on earth. It looks more like a bag of rocks lashed together with steel cable. He hauls all this bulk to the end of the runway, then plants 17 ft. of fiber glass into the ground and proceeds to rocket, upside-down, toward the bar hanging nearly 20 ft. above his head. He has barely cleared the bar when one official turns to the other with an unusual confession. "Damn...