Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) show the US Forestry Service sprayed over five million pounds of 2,4,5-T over the U.S. in 1976. It defends the use of this herbicide on the grounds that it defoliates selectively, killing hardwoods without harming softwoods, which accounts for the bulk of the lumber produced in the U.S. The Forestry Service also uses the herbicide to clear land for telephone lines, railroads, and highways, as well as to clear weeds from rice fields...
...companies and the U.S. government has been what Henry A. Kissenger '50 used to like to call "political stability." The price paid by the bulk of Iranian people has been continued mass poverty in the face of petro-dollar plenty and perpetual intimidation by the SAVAK, the Shah's secret police. For Pahlevi's most out-spoken critics it has often meant imprisonment and grotesque torture that has been only too vividly documented by some of those who escaped...
...letter you published [July 31] erroneously stated that CARE packages were now being sent to American soldiers abroad. The fact is that CARE does not provide assistance of any land to military personnel. Moreover, no CARE packages have been sent anywhere since 1968. Food is shipped in bulk and distributed via schools and nutrition centers...
...bulk of the Red Line project will be funded by the MBTA, supplemented by the Urban Mass Transit Association. Final costs for the project are expected to be in the millions, although no final figure has been estimated...
Strolling around behind University Hall we see the other major section of the Yard, dominated by the glowering bulk of Widener Library...