Word: bulking
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Whether or not Three Gorges is ever finished, hydropower can never meet the bulk of China's energy needs. Part of the problem is that most of the potential dam sites are in the less populated southwestern part of the country, making it expensive to transmit electricity to the industrial north and east. Experts say hydropower will account for no more than 20% of China's electricity generation...
Varsity male sports at Harvard received $2.2 million in administrative funding as of 1993, about twice that of women's sports. Male sports at Harvard also receive the bulk of the funding from alumni donations...
...easily becomes a scapegoat. The second word in its title is, after all, "nations." The member states, after all, still have the bulk of the power, and thus the responsibility, for the U.N.'s conduct. The organization doesn't send out one peacekeeper without the consent of the Security Council...
Seen from Washington, the Bosnian war is one of Serb aggressors and Bosnian Muslim victims. Each time the Serbs advance, some in Congress clamor for an aggressive U.S. response. However, to the British and French governments providing the bulk of the U.N. forces, all factions in the country are responsible for the vicious civil war. A senior U.N. observer in Sarajevo says Rose is not exactly pro-Serb but may be anti-Bosnian. "Rose's interest is in keeping everything quiet, in preserving the status quo," he says...
While granting the bulk of Attorney General L. Scott Harshbarger '64's appeal of Zobel's ruling, Armstrong refused to give his opinion on whether the conduct of the referenda violated the state constitution...