China, South Korea and Japan together are the world's largest importers of dry bulks.

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Although it bulks up slightly to a third of an inch thick, it's still a skinny, Kevlar-clad wedge.

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As it bulks up in financial services, that may give Britain's largest supermarket chain an edge over traditional insurers.

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Analysts think Focus Media will relist in Hong Kong once it bulks up its revenues and strengthens its balance sheet.

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In the case of Fairfax County, its 1.1 million residents represent one in seven of all Virginians, and so it bulks very large in the determination of which slate of electors will get the most votes.

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