Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...again, the restricted countries have managed to keep their economies intact despite the embargoes. Although the United Nations has supported restrictions on the sale of weapons to South Africa since 1977, that country seems to have suffered few adverse effects. Cuba turned to Moscow and now sends the bulk of its sugar, the country's leading export, to the Soviet Union and the East bloc...
Even those dinosaurs known to have proportionately larger brains like tyrannosaurus may have simply been too massive to survive on land. How could their bulk have been lethal? According to one suggestion that many weekend athletes can identify with, the dinosaurs suffered from slipped disks, which left them unable to forage for food. Great heft could even trigger infertility. In 1946 a paleontologist concluded that because large animals do not shed excess heat as efficiently as small animals do, a temperature increase of just 2 degrees F could have baked the considerable testicles of a ten-ton male dinosaur enough...
Witness Jack's seemingly innocent chore of taking out the Gladney garbage: Was this ours? Did it belong to us? I took the bag out to the garage and emptied it. The compressed bulk sat there like an ironic modern sculpture, massive, squat, mocking ... I picked through it item by item, mass by shapeless mass, wondering why I felt guilty, a violator of privacy, uncovering intimate and perhaps shameful secrets. Why did I feel like a household spy? Is garbage so private? Does it glow at the core with personal heat, with signs of one's deepest nature, clues...
...Citibank, attempted to alter their policy to permit such loans. Rebuffed by the ACSR in 1981, they tried again in 1982. Their proposal stated that "Harvard will encourage all banks with which it does business to make humanitarian loans...Harvard will encourage foreign banks which have supplied the bulk of South Africa's credit needs in recent years to make humanitarian loans...the contemplated change offers greater hope of spurring expenditures that benefit non-white South Africans than does the current policy." (Harvard Gazette...
...EVEN the more militant Cleaver has abandoned many of his former tenets, what has become of Baldwin? Simply nothing. In contrast to his contemporary, Baldwin has not budged from his basic convictions. In last April's issue of Essence, he wrote: "The multitudinous bulk of [whites] sit, stunned, before their TV sets swallowing garbage that they know to be tormented by the suspicion that all men are brothers...