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...HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION: In an HMO, you have to stay in network for your care to be covered. To boost profits, some HMOs push doctors into taking more patients than they can handle--so doctors tend to quit, harming continuity of care...
...heavy on the kind of cringe-worthy details (two words: animal prints) that characterize Gen X and Y nostalgia in general. Whereas baby-boomer touchstones like Brooklyn Bridge and The Big Chill recalled the '50s as more innocent and the '60s as more meaningful than the present, their successors tend to subscribe to the bad-yearbook-photo school of history. Instead of seeing the past as a lost Eden, they see history as an eternal march upward from dorkiness. The more memorable moments in the '80s pilot--already beaten to death in Fox's ads--include characters dancing...
...deepest values tend to be small- and mid-cap businesses that trade only in Japan but are available through most U.S. brokers. That's where Charles de Vaulx, co-manager of the First Eagle Sogen Global fund, has been mining. "Our bullishness on Japan rests on the extremely low valuations," he says. He likes the bicycle-parts maker Shimano, which has cash on its balance sheet equal to a third of its market value and has strong exports to boot. Other favorites include construction company Okumura, machinery company Aida Engineering and textiles firm Sotoh--all of which are profitable...
...Liverpool, "we should be surprised that there isn't more rock-'n'-roll- type behavior." It doesn't help that the game's authorities - the clubs and the Football Association - take contradictory stances when trouble arises. The clubs, perhaps because of the vast commercial considerations in modern football, tend to be lenient...
...have been trying to find an answer to that myself. Unfortunately the choreography hasn't changed all that much. In fact I would argue that it has actually regressed. We no longer have the luxury of days and days to perfect individual scenes, and as a result we tend to be less technical with the movements than perhaps 10 years ago. The new trend now is to have the whole nine yards in the film, the drama, the emotion, story development, and not just martial arts on its own. In a sense that takes away from the film...