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In accordance with legislation passed at the last session of Congress, each Representative is authorized to deliver to the Post Office in bulk newsletters, speeches and other literature to be dropped in every letter box in his district.
These cases in which light is already visible at the other end of the tunnel are ones which over the next few years will absorb the bulk of our capital assistance.
The fact that sticks out in this voluminous record is that the bulk of Du Pont's production has always supplied the largest part of the requirements of the one customer in the automobile industry connected to Du Pont by a stock interest.
The use of bulk handling is continuously growing.
Because agricultural activities are seasonal and the areas of production and harvest of many foods are widely scattered geographically, and because of the high cost of transporting bulk food items any substantial distance to a central processing location, the use of large central processing stations, where low-cost radiation facilities approaching the megawatt range might be utilized, is inherently impracticable.
Local libraries find, too, that the new plan saves tax dollars because books can be bought through the system, and since the system buys in bulk it is able to obtain larger discounts than would be available to an individual library.
Library use is multiplying daily, and the bulk of the newcomers are those maligned Americans, the teen-agers.
Most apparent is their sheer bulk ; complexes averaged more than 200 rooms each, and some enclosed up to 700 rooms.
Economic activity is strongly linked to the United States, with which American Samoa conducts the great bulk of its foreign trade.
where is the acoustic pressure and is the acoustic fluid velocity vector, is the vector of spatial coordinates, is the time, is the static mass density of the medium and is the bulk modulus of the medium.
where is the shear viscosity and is the bulk viscosity.
The Theban army under Pelopidas is said to have been dismayed by an eclipse ( on July 13, 364, see 4th century BC eclipses ), and Pelopidas, leaving the bulk of his army behind, entered Thessaly at the head of three hundred volunteer horsemen and some mercenaries.
29 .</ ref > This tendency to identify one specific underlying reality made up of a material thing constitutes the bulk of the contributions for which Anaximenes is most famed.
The bulk of the transport is carried in the middle two fronts.
The bulk of Grothendieck's published work is collected in the monumental, and yet incomplete, Éléments de géométrie algébrique ( EGA ) and Séminaire de géométrie algébrique ( SGA ).
Cohesive fracture is obtained if a crack propagates in the bulk polymer which constitutes the adhesive.
The bulk of the documents relate to the running of a large, private estate is named after Heroninos because he was phrontistes ( Koine Greek: manager ) of the estate which had a complex and standarised system of accounting which was followed by all its local farm managers.
The least expensive bulk cistern is a fenced pond or pool at ground level.
Such data is critical in determining the effeto of alloy constituents in a bulk material, identification of solid-state reaction features, such as solid phase precipitates.

bulk and devoted
Barnabas is about the same length as the four Canonical gospels put together ( the Italian manuscript has 222 chapters, compared with 16 in Mark ), with the bulk being devoted to an account of Jesus ' ministry, much of it harmonized from accounts also found in the canonical gospels.
The great bulk of Domesday Book is devoted to the somewhat arid details of the assessment and valuation of rural estates, which were as yet the only important source of national wealth.
The bulk of the book is devoted to discussing Hegel's three spheres of versions of ' right ,' each one larger than the preceding ones and encompassing them.
The bulk of the maiden issue of the Expositor was devoted to criticism of Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement and the mayor of Nauvoo.
The bulk of Anne Vallayer-Coster ’ s work was devoted to the language of still-life as it had been developed in the course of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
The novel covers the entire life of Belisarius, with the bulk of the text devoted to accounts of his life while on campaign in North Africa and Italy.
However, the romance of the spice trade makes it easy to forget that the bulk of Indian Ocean shipping was devoted to cargoes like rice, hardwoods, tin, iron ore, horses, rope, textiles and other daily essentials.
A bulk of the funds would be released on the first two years, the largest of which would be devoted to the Proposed Construction of Via-duct-an elevated expressway from Kawit, Cavite to Cavite City.
The bulk of the remainder of the book, chapters 10 to 22, is essentially devoted to the battles and tactical planning on two fronts, the Western ( chapters 11 to 14, 17, and 19 to 22 ) and the Eastern ( chapters 15 and 16 ).
The bulk of the magazine is devoted to a variety of topics.
According to South Korean scholar Park Youngsoon, subjects such as Korean language, mathematics, physical education, drawing, and music constitute the bulk of instruction in people's schools ; more than 8 percent of instruction is devoted to the " Great Kim Il Sung " and " Communist Morality.
The majority of the narrative follows a teenager referred to only as " the kid ," with the bulk of the text devoted to his experiences with the Glanton gang, a historical group of scalp hunters who massacred Native Americans and others in the United States – Mexico borderlands from 1849 to 1850 for bounty, pleasure, and eventually out of sheer compulsion.
The bulk of the novel is devoted to the detailing of their depraved activities and conversations.
The bulk of the episode is devoted to learning more about the Kull Warriors and finding a way to defeat them, as seemingly none of the weapons of SG-1 or the Jaffa are effective against the new threat.
Initially this high resolution low-loss mode was used to examine bacteriophage and blood cells in collaboration with researchers at NYU, and at the Veteran ’ s Administration Hospital in New Jersey however, the bulk of his work was devoted to using the microscopes as tools to scribe things using the lithography techniques that were becoming familiar for making silicon chips.
However, consistent with Reynolds ' radical sympathies, the bulk of the Institute's work was still devoted to vocational, rather than academic, education.
The bulk of the work is devoted to championing, in a most forthright way, Hume's treatment of the subject over that of Kant.

bulk and geography
In 1890 he presented his cableway in Switzerland, a country very interested in that transport owing to its geography and which was already coming to use cable cars for bulk transport, but Torres's project was dismissed, allowing certain ironic commentary from the Swiss press.
The bulk of the treatise, in fact, concerns how geography and climate interact with particular cultures to produce the " spirit " of a people.

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bulk 2, cargo 27, chemical tanker 2, combination ore / oil 3, container 16, liquified gas 4, multi-functional large load carrier 18, passenger 1, petroleum tanker 5, refrigerated cargo 26, roll-on / roll-off 6 ( 1999 est.
barge carrier 1, bulk 19, cargo 379, chemical tanker 4, combination bulk 21, combination ore / oil 3, container 25, multi-functional large load carrier 1, passenger 35, passenger / cargo 3, petroleum tanker 149, refrigerated cargo 26, roll-on / roll-off 22, short-sea passenger 7 ( 1999 est.
The bulk of the Bulgarian forces ( 346, 182 men ) was targeting Thrace, pitted against the Thracian Ottoman Army of 96, 273 men and about 26, 000 garrison troops or about 115, 000 in total, according to both Hall's, Erickson's and the Turkish Gen. Staff's study of 1993, books.
The bulk of the Chimú population ( around 26, 000 people ) lived in barrios on the outer edge of the city.
While the bulk of the Luftwaffe was busy with the land battle, III ./ KG 26 sought to break Soviet sea communications.
At 12: 26, the leading tractor had traversed the two railway tracks and the main bulk of the transporter was astride them when the 11: 30 express train from Manchester to Euston activated the crossing sequence by operating a treadle away.
The Chittagong garrison was to be reinforced by the bulk of 53rd Brigade troops from Comilla on March 26.
Around 4: 00 March 26, Major Bahar ( CO 53rd Brigade Signal Company-Bengali ), warned Captain Rafiq of 80 to 100 vehicles bearing the bulk of 53rd Brigade troops under Brig.
He claims that even though thebulk of mankind believe in two gods ” ( 26 )— namely free will and Providence — these concepts are really “ under one dominion ” ( 26 ) and expressions of the same beneficial force.
* Svema FN 250 ; 250 GOST, ISO 320 / 26 °; KB, bulk

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