Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...amendment defeated during the council meeting at which the term increase was approved would have assigned the bulk of the revenue generated by a term bill increase to the grants program. Adding $60,000 to the council's already substantial grants process would allow the council to specifically target grants at House committees and other established student organizations...
...fate, not to mention their own. Taylor's stomach sank when he heard last Monday that Martin Marietta's offer was fully $18 over Grumman's recent $37 price -- and $10 more than most of the contracts the two traders had written. That huge gap left them with the bulk of a $2 million shortfall. "I was depressed," says Taylor with a wry laugh...
...French would certainly not ban the use of words derived from Latin, as such an action would entail the prohibition of the bulk of the current vocabulary. Of course, Latin is a noble language of antiquity, while American English is the vile bastard child of culturally illiterate, gum-chewing slobs...
...fight was a quintessential '90s struggle that reflected the merger mania sweeping the communications industry and the quest for films, TV shows and other programming to run on the much anticipated electronic superhighway. Companies now feel compelled to bulk up to colossal size to compete with giants like Time Warner or huge telephone-cable-TV combines like the proposed merger of Bell Atlantic and Tele-Communications...
...Navy hasn't been run by a purebred surface-ship captain -- whose sailors make up the bulk of its force -- since Elmo Zumwalt left the job a generation ago. "When you go a long period of time without having a surface-fleet CNO, then it becomes a very serious morale problem for that vast segment of the Navy," Zumwalt says...