Word: bulks
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Although the committee is still divided on at least one substantive issue--election procedures for a new student assembly--"the bulk of our work is done and all we have to do is polish up the report so that it is a collective opinion," Dowling said...
Eisenhut first heard the case last summer and recommended to the Rent Board that the bulk of the increases be granted, but the board instead remanded the case for more testimony...
...Frequently for something bad to happen, or for a feeling, perception or mood to catch up with something bad that has happened. The stagnant '70s had their share of grim talebearers, notably Joyce Carol Oates, who attracted an unusually wide audience for a short-story writer. Reading the bulk of her work is like taking an unblinking look through the files of a psychiatric social worker. The Dead, her contribution to Prize Stories of the Seventies, follows a neurasthenic woman writer named Ilena through a declining marriage, a feverish love affair and literary success. The first line, taken...
Lannon--who submitted a proposed budget for the next fiscal year at last night's meeting--said the bulk of the firings would be among teachers. More than 270 of the system's 786 teachers would be cut if Proposition 2 1/2 is not modified by the state legislature, Lannon said...
...might expect, little political criticism of his work on corals, termites or baboons exists. Only expert ethologists bother to scrutinize these sections, which constitute the bulk of Wilson's first book. Only when Wilson discusses humans does he receive the attention of a broad and motley audience of anthropologists, philosophers and historians. There are two possible explanations. One might be that while Wilson's analysis of species below homo sapiensis scientifically masterful, his discussion of humans is simply not up to par and his new audience is taking him to task. This is probably not the case. Instead, Wilson...