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Word: bulks (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pretentiousness of the film itself doesn't help matters. Welles looms onto the screen at the outset, his stupendous bulk cloaked in a magician's cape, pulling pennies out of a boy's mouth and making keys disappear. Next he jumps to his editing room, where he's making movie magic--cutting and splicing a documentary about another sleight-of-hand expert. Hungarian art forger Elmyr deHory. But also about deHory's biographer. Clifford Irving, a hoaxster in his own right. Have it straight so far? F for Fake is thus a cinematic illusion (movie), directed by a renowned beguiler...

Author: By Mark T. Whitaker, | Title: H for Hype | 1/13/1977 | See Source »

...North Sea to the Labrador shores and Alaska's North Slope. The company began buying leases in Alaska as early as 1959, and brought in a North Sea gas field in 1965. BP's competent but colorless management has never been strong on marketing, preferring to sell crude in bulk. For all its 23,000 gas stations in Europe and 3,000 in the U.S., BP gets almost half its oil revenues from sales to other oil companies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Selling a Stake in a Big Sister | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

...think it was significant that the bulk of the questionnaire was the same. It shows that men and women are doing the same things, but women aren't liking it." Goodenough said...

Author: By Cheryl R. Devall, | Title: Nontenured Women Voice Complaints | 1/5/1977 | See Source »

Uncertain Future. Also, the amount of "free" oil is small. The Saudis sell only about 6.25% of their daily output on the open market. The bulk of their production is committed to four U.S. companies: Exxon, Texaco, Mobil and Chevron. They stand to benefit most from the two-tier system, but how much of the savings they will pass on to the U.S. consumer is unclear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: The Battle of the Barrels Begins | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

...fact, much more than that was recovered, say TIME'S Pentagon sources, even though the previous version that the entire sub was raised was apparently wrong. What was recovered was the bulk of the weapons system installed in the vessel, which carried three SSN5 surface-to-surface nuclear missiles. This is according to the Pentagon sources, who stick by their accounts of a far fuller retrieval than previously conceded by the CIA. Thus, after another twist of the Glomar mystery, the successes-or failures-of the mission remain confused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEFENSE: The Glomar Mystery | 12/20/1976 | See Source »

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