Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bulk of the second half of the concert consisted of an awesome performance of Charles Ives' Piano Sonata No. 2, the "Concord" Sonata, by Stephen Drury. The work is an unquestioned landmark in contemporary music, and is mammoth both in length and in conception. The four movements, or rather, intellectual portraits of Emerson, Hawthorne, the Alcotts, and Thoreau, are linked only by two brief themes, which are often interwoven into unrecognizable form. While the latter half of the sonata is more tonal and thus more accessible, the work presents an extreme challenge both to the listener and the performer...
Since September, 1975, the UFW has won the bulk of the elections held to decide which union the workers want to represent them...
...seven decades of business; he started at the age of nine by scraping together $25 to buy a sunken boat. Now a restless recluse with a fortune worth perhaps as much as $3 billion, Ludwig continues to expand his shipping-based business colossus into new areas. Besides his National Bulk Carriers, Inc., which with 49 vessels operates one of the world's largest tanker fleets, Ludwig's interests now include ranching in Venezuela, mining in Australia, and resort hotels in the Bahamas, Bermuda and Acapulco...
...Lebanon's President Sarkis to choose soldiers from any state that offers them. So far, troops have been offered by Saudi Arabia, North and South Yemen, the United Arab Emirates, Sudan, Libya and the P.L.O. The expectation is, however, that when the force is finally drawn up, the bulk of its members will be wearing Syrian uniforms...
Some 95% of the bank's personal loans have been made to women, although the bulk of commercial loan dollars has gone to "prime accounts" like Gulf & Western Industries-not primarily too small, female-run enterprises, as might have been expected. Says Benedict: "Our loan policy is no different from other banks." As a new institution, he adds, First Women's must be extra cautious in lending money because otherwise "every deadbeat in town will beat a path to our door...