Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bulk of the easternmost column rolled steadily ahead through the hilly country, encountering no early P.L.O. resistance. Crossing the Litani River at Akia Bridge, the Israelis moved past a P.L.O. guardhouse abandoned so recently that a coffeepot was still warm...
Like his hero, Stallone remains an athlete. He glories in his stringent conditioning. Since Rocky II he has lost 38 Ibs. under the direction of a nutritionist. "The idea was the reverse of body building. Instead of adding bulk and then sculpting down, I went to 157 and added on in increments of an ounce here, an ounce there." Stallone slimmed mainly on a daily diet of ten raw egg whites and a quarter slice of burnt toast-"so it would contain no water." The daily routine: two miles running, 18 rounds of sparring, two hours of weight lifting...
...breakout from the beachhead. Traveling eastward from Port San Carlos, they were moving along roads that were no more than rutted tracks toward the Falklands capital of Port Stanley, 50 miles away. Their aim: to launch an attack on some 7,500 troops dug in around the settlement, the bulk of the force that precipitated the South Atlantic crisis with their own invasion of the bleak islands on April...
...superpowers. In a prime-time press conference, he elaborated on and defended his proposal, outlined the previous Sunday at Illinois' Eureka College, for Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START). Reagan's plan would require deep reductions in the Soviets' large land-based missiles, which form the bulk of their arsenal. "I think you start with first things first," the President said, referring to the massive rockets that he calls the most "destabilizing" of all arms systems. But he also indicated a willingness to halve eventually the present number of U.S. long-range missiles and to discuss weapons...
Unemployment in America is taking on new and startling dimensions. No longer are the bulk of layoffs confined to just autos and housing, which have been in a three-year slump. Unemployment has spread to textiles, pulp and paper, steel, oil drilling and refining, mining and chemicals. Along with union members and the semiskilled, white-collar workers are losing their jobs. Edward Lieberman, 28, was shocked when he could not find work after being laid off from his $20,000-a-year job as a computer-software salesman in Los Angeles. Said he: "I've discovered that I need...