Word: bulks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...poverty, poor education and a lack of opportunity in inner-city neighborhoods, problems that the police can do nothing about. Officers, who tend to be recruited from places far from the neighborhoods they will patrol, often have little in common with the citizens they must serve and protect. "The bulk of police forces are white males of the middle class," says Ron DeLord, head of the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas. "Yet we send them into large urban centers that are black and Hispanic and poor, with no understanding of the cultural differences, to enforce white, middle-class moral...
...most of American history, the educational system has reflected and reinforced bedrock beliefs of the larger society. Now a troubling number of teachers at all levels regard the bulk of American history and heritage as racist, sexist and classist and believe their purpose is to bring about social change -- or, on many campuses, to enforce social changes already achieved...
...sometimes violent five-month strike, during which the paper kept publishing but virtually all revenue disappeared, the News was "sold" to British-based media tycoon Robert Maxwell, 67. In truth, the "buyer" was paid $60 million just to take the paper off the Tribune Co.'s hands. The bulk of that will go to buyouts and severance pay. To add to the Tribune Co.'s pain, in just six days Maxwell extracted $72 million in union concessions, more than the old owners had demanded in provoking the strike. Union leaders gave up 800 of 2,600 jobs, accepted...
...necessarily add up to a better deal for the public. The University of Wisconsin at Madison, for instance, has a rate of just 44%, but that is partly because state taxes help cover the cost of buildings, heat and other overhead expenses connected with research. Taxpayers still pay the bulk of the bill, just as they do at Stanford; there are simply more state tax dollars in the mix than at a private school. Rates are typically lower at public institutions anyway. Unlike Cornell or M.I.T., these schools have little incentive to comb federal guidelines for every allowable expense since...
...City) beat them to the big story. But for the people back home, it mattered little. Pictures of liberated Kuwait, give or take a few hours, reached TV in abundance. The allied battle plan, after having been kept secret for weeks, was eventually laid out in lavish detail. The bulk of the story was told, or soon will...