Word: majority
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that film's gang of five to a two-hander in Apt Pupil, from a Stephen King story. The other three directors have bought a big canvas (at a cut rate) and splashed strange people on it till it's as busy as a Bruegel. Solondz has a dozen major characters trudging through Happiness. Stanley Tucci, the co-writer, co-director and star of everyone's favorite Italian-food film, Big Night, has created a shipful of fools in his farce The Impostors. Todd Haynes, known for his furtive, paranoid parables Poison and Safe, goes wide-screen and handsome...
...major American freedom is now being decided: Will a person's sex life be private or public? JOSEPH DEVANEY Los Alamos...
...bats will last well into the next century. The best home-run hitters, playing in Colorado, might hit more than 70. But McGwire hit his 70 in just 509 at bats, with 33% more homers per at bat than Sammy Sosa and 17% more than Ruth's previous major league record...
...Bennett of Bellcore, sports statistician: Ty Cobb's 50 career steals of home and Cy Young's 511 wins will probably never be reached without a major shift in the nature of the game. Also in this category is Nolan Ryan's 5,714 strikeouts. Schilling, Clemens and Johnson have virtually no chance to break this record. On the other hand, Hank Aaron's 755-HR record is within reach of several current sluggers...
...IPAs aren't entirely labors of love. A major reason for starting PrimaHealth was that doctors felt themselves being squeezed by managed care. Insurers could keep pushing down reimbursement rates, and there was little doctors could do about it. With an IPA, doctors get together and, in some ways acting like a union, negotiate how much money they will charge to provide care. An IPA also gives doctors more control over how they do their jobs, something managed care has been taking away. "The doctors want to be listened to," says Dr. Dennis Clements, a Duke pediatrician and PrimaHealth member...