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Surgery to replace the body's injured or worn-out joints has also risen dramatically. Between 1983 and 1993, the number of hip replacements swelled from 49,000 to 83,000, and knee replacements almost quadrupled, to 131,000. Typically following fractures, the surgery restored patients to the level of mobility they enjoyed before the bone break. That has meant liberation from a walker or wheelchair--and from a housebound existence...
...what an Administration of adults--as opposed to baby boomers--would look like. But Dole, broke and exhausted, had the stomach for none of it. And so he watched from the sidelines with scarcely an answering volley as the Clinton machine--flush with funds because no other Democrat had risen to challenge the President in the primaries--filled the airwaves with a massive ad strategy that would define the coming general-election campaign: Let Dole have the White House, the Democrats argued, and Newt will be running the country; let us keep it, and Clinton will brake the Gingrich revolution...
...cousin to Navigator 2.0. Gates knew Internet Explorer 3.0 had to be far better. So the company began throwing bodies at the problem. From August to November 1995, the browser group grew from eight to 30 employees. By the time Explorer 3.0 was released last month, that number had risen...
...year-long strategy to identify with family issues like school uniforms and V chips. So much the better that his announcement was able to divert attention from the release earlier in the week by the Department of Health and Human Services of a report that teenage drug use has risen sharply since...
...Twister, but Hollywood's economics are a mess. Last year the industry brought in $5.5 billion, and through the first half of this year ticket sales are up 14% compared with 1995, according to the Exhibitor Relations Co. Inc. Trouble is, the number of films in wide release has risen 13% over last year even as the cost of making and marketing films rose sharply. Not only did the competition for filmgoers' dollars get stiffer, some executives contend that the quality of the films declined as the studios scrambled to shove more and more product into their pipelines...