Word: developing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...screen idol, emaciated, covered with sores, talking to sporting equipment and riding a toilet to freedom: Is that box-office gold or what? "It definitely took someone of [Hanks' and Zemeckis'] level to get this movie made," says screenwriter William Broyles (Apollo 13). Hanks hooked up with him to develop a pet idea: a modern desert-island story--the stuff of sitcoms and New Yorker cartoons--told 100% realistically. No Man Friday. No "bamboo bicycle that powers a generator," as Hanks puts it. "The influence of Gilligan's Island on our national psyche has been extremely powerful." To prepare, Broyles...
...about families torn apart by the decisions of how to care for an aging parent; an awful lot had parents who were ripped off or abused by caregivers. There were wonderful suggestions too: adult day-care centers, tracking devices for wandering Alzheimer's patients, and groups trying to develop community-based services so that elderly Alzheimer's sufferers could remain at home...
...will remain close, leaving her proctorship to become a pre-law tutor in Adams House and helping to develop a national board for Project HEALTH during the summer...
...infected with HIV. The business context for that decision was highlighted by Wednesday's announcement of an executive order by President Clinton that Washington would refrain from enforcing U.S. patents on AIDS drugs in African countries battling the disease. That would leave those countries free to license or develop far cheaper generic versions of the patented drugs - already in Brazil, for example, a generic version of AZT sells for about 10 percent of the patented drug's price on the U.S. market - which pharmaceutical corporations fear could eventually eat into their global market share...
Aaron said the IOP plans to review the results and develop a plan of action in the coming year...