"The stock had a run into the panel, and there was clearly some anticipation that it would vote favorably--the bulk of the notes out there had a positive bias, " Bonello says.

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Although part-timers help out during peak periods, the bulk of Saga's stitching is done by full-timers, paid a salary rather than by the piece.

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In June, the governors of eight American states and the premiers of Ontario and Quebec signed an accord setting out principles for controlling bulk-water exports.

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Such efforts notwithstanding, Josef Schmidhuber, an agronomist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, argues that Brazil's competitive advantage lies in churning out huge quantities of low-cost bulk commodities.

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That hasn't gone unnoticed by banks that are increasingly seeking out smaller, higher-priced sales to the newcomers alongside bulk asset sales to bigger investors.

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Armour buys U.S. government-backed mortgage securities, leverages them up, and pays out the bulk of her income as dividends.

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Sheryl Hall and Betty Lambuth both testified the White House should be able to begin turning out the e-mails in the next few days and have the bulk of the work done in the next few months.

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For instance, if paper towels were only sold in bulk packages large enough to last a family a decade, low-income families would be priced out of this market as well.

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But Mr Cameron said the vast bulk of Britain's military operations over the past few decades had been carried out with allies and said co-operating on testing nuclear warheads would save millions of pounds.

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