Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Elephants leave a particularly durable image. As a boy, I accepted the skill of the acrobats, equestrian and trapeze artists with some indifference, but the elephants had bulk. Like the blue whale and the dinosaurs at the Museum of Natural History, the elephant is an undeniably massive presence at the circus...
...German inclination is to savor success without dwelling on the past. Kohl, whose physical bulk and blunt manner seem to personify the big new Germany, called the Yugoslavia decision "a success for German foreign policy." Genscher flatly said, "We were right!" For their part, Germans feel frustrated when they are criticized for doing things that would seem benign if done by virtually any other country. It is time, say many Germans, to reap the benefits of 45 years of good conduct. What they want is responsibility commensurate with duty. "When it comes to paying, everybody says, 'Germans to the front...
...talk sponsored by the Harvard Conservative Club, D'Souza spent the bulk of his time relating his experiences as an Dartmouth undergraduate to the audience of 20 Harvard students...
...person who accumulates the most points snags the bulk of the cash, with the remainder going to second and third place poolers, says Perlman, who also follows this system...
...bulk of yesterday's activities took place at the Law School where more than 200 students expressed an open vote of `no confidence' in Dean Robert C. Clark. Many students also wrote letters to The Wall street Journal, responding to L. Gordon Crovitz's March 25 editorial about Clark...