Word: bulks
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...warships of Task Force 60, an armada comprising two aircraft carriers, the U.S.S. Nimitz and U.S.S. Forrestal, and 14 support ships. The purpose of the operation: a two-day "open-ocean missile exercise" in one of the less crowded regions of the Mediterranean. At dawn Tuesday, while the bulk of the task force stood at least 100 miles off the African coastline, two destroyers slipped into the northern reaches of the Gulf of Sidra, with the mission of patrolling the southern perimeter of the exercise and watching for stray missiles. As Washington was purposefully aware, the dispatch...
That seemed to be true. The union's abrupt walkout and the Administration's swift retaliation had left neither side any face-saving way to resume negotiations, particularly since the Government considered the bulk of PATCO's constituency no longer strikers but simply among the unemployed. The FAA even took steps to decertify PATCO as the legal bargaining agent for the controllers. Justifiably confident that public opinion was solidly on his side and still basking in his legislative triumphs on Capitol Hill, the President massed a historic show of force against the first labor union to challenge his Administration directly...
Malevolent but pathetic, dying but dangerous, the buffalo looms from the canvas in all his massive black bulk, with the mythic menace of a dying Minotaur. Two linked tents frame a ceremony in a design as elegant as that on a Japanese screen. An Indian family flees from an approaching prairie fire whose stylized billows Charles Burchfield might have envied, across a field of endless prairie grass that Andrew Wyeth might have emulated. A Blackfoot chief stares at the viewer with the arrogance of long command-and the despair of one who knows his nation is doomed...
...steel fortunes of families such as Rockefeller, Whitney and Phipps provided the bulk of the money for the venture capital market until the early 1960s. The Phipps family's fund, Bessemer Venture Partners, was an early investor in International Paper and Ingersoll-Rand. Laurance Rockefeller in 1938 helped start both Eastern Air Lines and Douglas Aircraft. When younger members of the Rockefeller family decided that they wanted a part of the action, a broader risk fund called Venrock was created in 1969. It has since made lucrative investments in both Intel, a successful semiconductor manufacturer, and Apple Computer...
...Shearson's group is led by Managing Director Mark Millard, 72, who in 1963 advised Seagram Chairman Edgar Bronfman to buy Texas Pacific Oil Co. for $326 million. Seagram last year sold Texas Pacific to the Sun Oil Co. for $2.3 billion; that money is now providing the bulk of funds used in the bidding for Conoco...