Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Divsion of Applied Sciences received about 50 percent of Harvard's research awards funded by the Pentagon. There are approximately 10 defense subcontracts within the department, with a large bulk of the funds coming from the Office of Naval Research, said Paul C. Martin, dean of the Division of Applied Sciences...
...Harvard sample, which is relatively easy to keep track of, for various health-related studies. But they caution against applying the results too specifically to the general population. The alumni group, for example, includes no women and is primarily white. Further, in terms of intelligence and affluence, "the bulk of these men are cut from the same cloth," says Paffenbarger. "In general, they live longer than the average Caucasian American of comparable age." On the other hand, somewhat surprisingly, the rate of suicide among the Harvard graduates was 50% higher than that of the overall population...
...harem, the collecton of seasoned beauties who lived at Sutton Place and fought capped tooth and lacquered nail for sole possession of their host. Their efforts were not well rewarded; each received a paltry, if not insulting, legacy from the richest man in the world. The bulk of his estate went to the Getty Museum in Malibu, an institution that tax-sheltered much of its founder's collection and finally shielded his remains. Getty was buried near the museum, a stagy imitation of the Emperor Hadrian's Villa dei Papyri, though not before his lawyers found a way around...
...Unfortunately, the bulk of our grant has gone to salary," Gump says. "It's a shame it has to be that way, but you need someone at a paid position to coordinate programs, and no department has picked us up into their budget...
...heavy with brass and riddled by corruption. Sagging morale has spawned sharp divisions within the ranks. A reformist movement, composed predominantly of young officers concerned about the corps' lack of professionalism, has emerged in the past year (see box). At his press conference, Marcos pointedly maintained that the bulk of the Philippine military supports him. Indeed, many soldiers and officers do not. That fact raised an almost unthinkable scenario: the possibility of a civil war between two camps of a divided nation, each backed by heavily armed military factions...