Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That night--one of the least memorable in Harvard history--RPI goalie Steve Duncan went as far as the Charles River and back to stop shots. Also, the Engineers used their bulk to tie down the high-flying Crimson offense...
Kennedy's study is actually two books in one. The subtitle -- "Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000" -- accurately describes the , bulk of the contents: a sweeping survey of the shifting balance of power over five centuries. The book could easily serve as an introductory history text for very bright undergraduates. But Kennedy is not content to end his story in the present. His final chapter, "To the 21st Century," ventures to predict which nations will prosper and decline in the near future. Astrologers do this sort of thing all the time; when a respected historian tries...
Only three years ago IBM's bigness was its strength, enabling the company to dominate the computer industry so thoroughly that its competitors cried out for antitrust relief. No more. Today Big Blue's bulk has become a colossal burden. While the rest of the computer industry has emerged from an overall slump and surged forward with robust sales increases, IBM has plodded along (1987 revenues: $54.2 billion, up just 8% in a two-year period). IBM has tried to become lighter on its feet by cutting staff, modernizing factories and streamlining its process for getting new products to market...
...report claims that shutdowns occurred in almost every component of the complex trading systems, from the printers on the exchange floors to the phalanxes of minicomputers that do the bulk of the N.Y.S.E.'s back-office work. Part of the Big Board's designated order turnaround (DOT) system, which transmits orders from brokerage firms to the floor of the exchange, crashed four times on Oct. 19. The next day, a system that stores standing orders to buy or sell shares at a predetermined price stopped three times. One still unidentified software glitch temporarily misplaced transaction reports involving some 4.3 million...
...bulk of the aid package was intended to buy"non-lethal" supplies to keep the rebels alive asa military force inside Nicaragua. That includedfood and uniforms as well as communications gearand leased aircraft to deliver the material...