Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...hardly revealing a state secret when I tell you that the transition to democracy in these countries will require hundreds of billions of dollars," Oxman said. "In my view, the bulk of that must come from the private sector...
...more than $41,000 of the loss consisted of interest the Clintons paid on Whitewater-related loans and deducted on their federal income tax returns. Lindsey told TIME that the rest of the money the Clintons invested included accountants' fees, real estate taxes and "other expenses" but that the bulk of it was accounted for by repayment of principal on loans the Clintons had taken out to finance the project...
Radcliffe was formed initially in an attempt to give women a Harvard education. Along the way, it grew and adapted to provide women with seminars, programs and externships that Harvard could not, or would not provide. Allowing it to be absorbed into the massive bulk to Harvard would destroy what it symbolizes, and would serve only to reinforce the notion that women, in order to succeed at Harvard/Radcliffe, must learn to be "one of the boys...
...bulk of the construction will take place over the next two summers, according to Peter Riley, the project's senior construction manager...
What you see, what confronts and monopolizes your gaze, is a woman on the floor in the foreground. Her bulk is colossal, almost comic. She simply blows away the decorum of the nude -- the ideal body re-formed by thought. She isn't nude but aggressively naked, a biological mountain: swollen thighs and belly, pubic ravine, breasts like boulders, their stretch marks and blotches half- echoing the surface texture of the girl's cloth. The strength of her presence isn't due just to her depicted fatness but to the way the image burgeons from dense paint, a heavy mass...