Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...explaining who will take their place," Curtin declared to cheers from the audience. "Who will protect the poor, the injured, the victims of negligence, the victims of racial discrimination and - the victims of racial violence?" Not mentioned, of course, were the corporations that provide some A.B.A. members with the bulk of their income. Quayle was allowed the final word. "Nobody is talking about eliminating lawyers," he said, backtracking a bit. "So let's not be extreme about this...
Ryan says this near the beginning of Clancy's sixth novel, The Sum of All Fears (Putnam; 798 pages; $24.95), which, because of its weight and bulk, will probably not become a runaway best seller; it will become a lumberaway best seller...
...Myers Squibb, called DDI, or dideoxyinosine, be put on the market even though it has not undergone the agency's standard testing. While the decision heartened many AIDS organizations, some desperate patients have resorted to an immediate alternative: black-market DDC. Underground AIDS groups are buying the drug in bulk directly from chemical companies, which manufacture it for use in laboratory experiments. The clandestine suppliers then weigh out and package the counterfeit pills and sell them at cost in what experts say is the first large-scale pirating of a drug developed by a major firm...
Many cells now ship the money in bulk to Cali, where some is invested, some converted into pesos and some wired back to banks in the U.S. or Europe under a relative's name. In January 1989 New York agents seized a Santacruz truck loaded with $19 million as it was departing for Mexico. Last October agents found an additional $14 million inside heavy cable spools on Long Island, along with records showing shipments of $100 million more over the previous nine months...
...status of a national hero in France, where he died in 1959. Along the way, the hot-tempered Creole managed to record hundreds of tunes, including such classics as Summertime, Strange Fruit and Petite Fleur. These two digitally remastered sets, both of them copiously documented and illustrated, contain the bulk of his U.S. recorded work...