Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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CAME up with a 600-plus-page "agenda" to save the planet, with a price tag of more than $600 billion a year but not yet agreed on plans for raising the bulk of the money...
...bulk of the pressurized suits makes physical activity extremely awkward and quickly exhausting. Astronauts have found that their hands chafe sorely, particularly the fingertips, which can be rubbed so raw that the deltas, whorls and ridges of their fingerprints disappear. But the Endeavour crew accomplished its spectacular mission and, just for the record, completed a fourth jaunt in space before preparing for their scheduled return home...
...bulk of the day is spent non on oratory, not on discussion of the facts, not on objections and overrulings, but scheduling. Every time a case is sent to pre-trial conference, or a witness is missing, or the prosecution isn't ready, or he defendant had to go to the hospital, the judge and two lawyers open their calendars and set date, usually three or four weeks away...
Black Students Association (BSA) President Zaheer R. Ali '94 said the bulk of the meeting consisted of students discussing their experiences in the past year, especially the last semester. "There was an attempt to try to understand where the other person was coming from," Ali said...
...protecting the Serb minority in Bosnia, predominantly Serb army troops and local militia poured artillery shells into towns and fought pitched battles with Croats and Slavic Muslims in the capital, Sarajevo. The recent fighting in Bosnia has added at least 300 deaths to the 10,000 killed -- the bulk of them in Croatia -- since Croatia and Slovenia declared their independence last spring. The federal army has withdrawn from Slovenia, and in Croatia the presence of a U.N. peacekeeping force has helped reinforce the sense of a shaky peace. But fighting still flares occasionally, and political talks have failed to produce...