Word: bulks
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Shultz devoted the bulk of his 20-minute speech to another familiar topic: U.S. displeasure with Moscow's human rights record. He named 22 Soviet citizens victimized by Moscow over the past decade. Among them were Nobel Laureate Andrei Sakharov, Physicist Yuri Orlov, Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky and more obscure citizens like Yuri Balovlenkov, whose "crime" was to marry a U.S. citizen...
Japan's moves did not impress Washington. Said White House Spokesman Larry Speakes: "It is difficult to determine from the announcement whether the program will remove the bulk of the barriers in a timely fashion." Congress was even more skeptical. "Japan has announced five previous market-opening initiatives in the past four years," said Republican Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania. "None of them has worked. That's the reason for this sixth initiative. I doubt this will do much good either...
...warriors." "Not savages, but gentlemen," explains Cadet Captain Chris Borgerding. Plebes are constantly "corrected" by upperclassmen, but hazing is forbidden. For years, plebes were so busy reciting and saluting at mealtime that they went hungry and lost weight. The more famished cadets were known to eat toothpaste for bulk. Now, after a typical West Point reform, plebes are ordered to eat. "It isn't milk and cookies," insists Cadet First Captain Timothy Knight, the ranking cadet who is also known as the King of Beasts. "Plebes still feel the heat." Many find it too much to bear. Almost one-third...
...face of radio. The advent of communications satellites has enabled programs to be distributed more easily and more cheaply than ever before. At least 23 national radio networks are currently in existence, compared with just four in 1968 and nine in 1974. Though music, news and sports constitute the bulk of network fare, the radio dial is increasingly filling up with daily, weekly or monthly "longform" programming, from music/variety series like NBC's Live from the Hard Rock Café (with Host Paul Shaffer of TV's Late Night with David Letterman) to national talk/call-in shows, many inspired by the phenomenal...
...stations in particular are attracted to network news and information programming as a way of distinguishing themselves from FM, which has captured the bulk of the music audience. Stations often find it both better and cheaper to put on a network show rather than hire a local personality, especially for nights, weekends and other lower-rated radio time slots. Audiences may not even know they are hearing a network broadcast because local phone numbers and recorded promos are sometimes used to maintain a local flavor...