Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skirts the Common and walks to Ginn and Company in Park Square. Occupying almost a whole floor in one of the city's largest office buildings, Ginn is more a strictly commercial enterprise than its trade sisters. Consequently, it is better off financially. It publishes purely educational material, the bulk of which is directed toward elementary and secondary schools...
Pledged to maintain both a free economy and a breakneck pace of expansion, Turkey became more and more overextended. At home, Farmer Menderes staunchly refused (and still does) to extend the income tax to farmers, who represent 80% of the population and the bulk of Menderes' party's electoral support. The country exhausted its foreign-exchange reserves and ran up foreign debts, which continue to grow at the rate of $3,000,000 weekly. For months Turkey has been living hand-to-mouth, paying such urgent bills as last June's oil-company duns out of current...
...proselyte," and one Maccabean king, John Hyrcanus I (135-104 B.C.), even compelled the conquered Idumeans to become Jews and undergo circumcision. But in the main, Judaism has been the religion of one people, its heart being the covenant between God and Israel. Some day, according to the bulk of Jewish tradition, that covenant will include all mankind. In the meantime converts are traditionally discouraged, and conversion merely for the sake of marriage is expressly forbidden...
...socialistic. Its proudest achievement: good planning, hard work and good weather have increased food production 18%-for the first time in history relieving India's peasant masses of the threat of famine. The plan strove to fill the most urgent needs of India's millions, pumped the bulk of its money into irrigation, electric power, transport and housing, only 8% into industry, e.g., one steel plant, a locomotive factory, a shipyard. Meanwhile, the "private sector" of India's economy was left free to expand. The new plan, Nehru's advisers agreed, must push more decisively toward...
...while the triumphant networks lord it over admen and sponsors, a celluloid cloud looms threateningly in the West. If TV's entertainment remains mostly live, Manhattan will be its source and Broad way its inspiration. Should TV go to film, the bulk of the industry will shift to Hollywood-as radio did before it. Some pessimists see the day not far off when 70% of TV shows will be movies (currently, about 35% is filmed...