Word: classics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...consensus that one hospital would be a good goal to strive for," he says. But over the past 15 years, four attempts to merge have failed when the two sides could not agree on whether the new hospital would tilt toward a group practice of salaried doctors or the classic system of independent ones. At Dunn, doctors are all self-employed and work for patients on a fee-for-service basis. "The worst thing that has happened in medicine is the HMO," says Dr. Lawrence Benham, a grandfatherly 84-year-old in his 47th year of practice at Dunn. "There...
...rematch--$35 million for the champ, $30 million for the challenger--not to mention a stiff pay-per-view price of $49.95 for home viewers. Promoter Don King called it "the biggest event of all time," and while it may not have been that, it was a classic rematch between the good Holyfield, who wore the biblical inscription PHIL. 4: 13 on his trunks, and the bad Tyson, who sought guidance before the fight at the gravesite of legendary thug Sonny Liston. Even after his prison term for rape and his subsequent exposure as an ordinary fighter, Tyson still fascinates...
...TIME's Mark Thompson: "The argument here is that fewer efficient companies are better than more inefficient ones." Besides, when was efficiency ever an issue in the defense industry? While such a deal in any other sector would spark worries about concentration of market share and reduced competition, the classic rules of economics have long been suspended in the defense industry, Thompson notes. "There's just one customer: the government. It's never been that competitive to begin with." If the merger comes off, the Pentagon will be mightily dependent upon three big defense contractors: Lockheed/Northrop, Boeing/McDonnell and Raytheon, which...
...sale, impatient Westinghouse shareholders may be sick of the underperforming network. If CBS does go on sale, Gates may have some competition on his hands. Seagram, owner of Universal Studios, recently dumped a large chunk of Time Warner and has reportedly expressed interest in CBS. In a classic non denial-denial, Microsoft said that such a takeover might endanger its $200 million MSNBC network partnership NBC. Let's see: endanger a dollar to capture...
...critic who can't resist a good show or the damnably hummable tunes of a Rodgers or a Lloyd Webber, a really professionally staged musical is often a source of lively, if somewhat guilty, entertainment. So it is with the lavish production of the Kern-Hammerstein classic "Showboat" currently playing at the Wang Center through August...