Word: bulks
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Mleczko, Desaulniers, Hackett and Cuccia all piqued the admission committee's interest because they possess unusual talent and conform to academic standards. They all--in one manner or another--were recruited. But they constitute exceptions. The varsity athletes who compose the bulk of Crimson squads had a bare minimum of contact with the athletic department prior to admission. Even alumni "scouting" is for the most part random and informal. Sometimes, the casual approach proves advantageous for Harvard. As one Crimson athlete says, "Princeton turned me off because the coach was so insistent it bothered me. It felt nice...
...much immediate help to the thrift institutions in any case. Wall Street analysts estimate that at least 20% of the nation's S and Ls are already losing money in the current squeeze. Last week Cleveland's Washington Federal Savings and Loan was forced into receivership. The bulk of its assets were acquired by another Ohio thrift institution after Washington Federal was unable to pay for Government securities it had ordered...
...pieced together by investigators, the Liverpool scheme was elaborately simple. A mysterious Swiss businessman named Jean Cottet used a Panamanian firm to buy and ship bulk consignments of cheap French table wine to a few select bottling firms in The Netherlands. There it was put into unlabeled bottles and pro vided with a forged set of papers attesting to the fact that it came from a respected wine-growing area entitled to a French government Appellation Contrôleé certifi cate. Thence to England, where the high-priced labels were put on by Eutron before the wine was dispatched...
Hefty too: up to 2,200 Ibs. of blubbery bulk. But while Cleveland hailed from New Jersey, the manatee is a native of warmer climes: the rivers of West Africa, the Amazon basin, the shores of the Caribbean, and the coasts of Florida. Now the gentle and once plentiful creature is in serious danger of extinction. In Africa and South America, tribesmen have hunted it for its delectable meat-not unlike veal-as well as its fat and oil, leathery skin and ivory-like bone. In Florida, only some 1,000 remain, and the death rate appears to be exceeding...
Reputed to have received some 500 offers to lend his name to products after the Olympics, Spitz has phased out most of his work in endorsements. The bulk of the time he spends away from wife, Susan, and SUMARK, which is named for the two of them, involves traveling for Elton Swim Products, Arena Swim Wear, or doing color commentary for ABC broadcasts of major swim meets...