Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bulk of the financing for the renovations came from a gift from Moses Weinman, a trustee of the station, who was at the ceremony with other alumni of the station...
...current Ivy leaders and defending Ivy champs returned the bulk of their powerful lineup, and Dixon and Co. will need their best night of the year to topple the squad that hasn't fallen to a visiting Crimson contingent in 15 years...
Much of what fills the file relates in some way to religion. However, the bulk of that mail is in coherent Two letters outlining societal do's and don't's are signed by Jesus Christ and the Messiah respectively The latter correspondent prophesies that on the Monday following the Resurrection. Millicent Fenwick will become President and Alan Alda will become the Secretary of Radio...
Jankowski is not talking about quality entertainment here. He is defining the networks' primary function: to make money, not by selling programs to viewers but by selling viewers-in bulk, watching a prime-time show-to advertisers. The ad agencies are still buying, despite skyrocketing rates ($91,000 for the average 30-sec. spot in prime time, up 125% since 1975). Says Louis Dorkin, senior vice president at the Dancer Fitzgerald agency: "The advertisers will keep paying these prices until they decide there's a better game in town...
...alleged weakness as an ensemble performer. Outraged, the conductor coolly informed his musicians that henceforth he would fulfill only his contractual obligations (half a dozen or so performances a year) and would cease doing most of the concert tours and recording sessions that provide the orchestra members with the bulk of their incomes. The standoff has Berliners contemplating the very real possibility of an end to 44 years of beautiful music from the maestro and the philharmonic...