Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...International: Maybe it's just popular perception, but BU seems to draw the bulk of its students from Beantown suburbs and Long Island...
...absence of a consumer cooperative. Take a small-town general store. If it's the only shop in a town that isn't big enough to support a second store, its owner can price-gouge mercilessly. In this case, the consumers are better off forming a cooperative, buying in bulk and splitting the proceeds...
...authors, Nell D. Benjamin '93, Mark C. O'Keefe '93 and Larry O'Keefe '91, wrote the bulk of their script over the summer...
...retrospect, the phenomenon makes sense: the thyroid gland tends to concentrate iodine ingested by the body, and radioactive iodine was released in bulk during the accident. Moreover, radiation is known to cause thyroid cancer, and children are especially susceptible. But previous studies of nuclear accidents in Britain and the U.S. and studies of nuclear-weapons testing in Japan and the South Pacific have failed to prove a fallout-cancer correlation conclusively. The probable difference this time: the radiation was more highly concentrated and hit a heavily populated area...
...1970s, in the first full decade or two after the granting of independence. Africa had its Golconda of commodities -- cocoa, coffee, copper and palm oil -- and their prices were high. Africans borrowed against those prices; the world happily lent. Unlike other countries now heavily indebted, African nations owe the bulk of their debt to First World governments, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank rather than to commercial banks and other private creditors...