Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then came the wild years of shock schlock that included Tom and Roseanne's mooning a stadium of baseball fans before a World Series game and announcing a joint "marriage" to their nubile young assistant. Meanwhile, Tom was throwing his considerable bulk around the Roseanne set, improving the show, by many accounts, but making enemies. "It was an odd situation," he says now. "I was the boyfriend, then I was the fiance, then I was the husband. People just will not respect that...
...really wanted to capture the feel of the 350th," said Jonathan P. Feeney '97, the co-chair of the council's Campus Life Committee who is doing the bulk of the summer organizing...
Would the move backfire? While many families of MIA combatants felt betrayed, the White House knew that the bulk of Americans would approve. The most recent Gallup poll on the issue found that in the past two years, support for recognition has risen from 48% to 61%, with just 27% now opposed. The number of MIA "discrepancy cases"--airmen shot down over North Vietnam and still unaccounted for--is down to just 55 by official count, and most people seemed resigned to the idea that the fortunes of war are bound to leave a few mysteries. A day after Clinton...
...teaching hospitals are following similar strategies, with some variations. The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, saw the managed-care wave coming and hatched a particularly wide array of responses. For one thing, it standardized purchasing of such supplies as knee braces and rods for broken bones. It orders in bulk and demands discounts. Meanwhile, Mayo has a thriving side business in newsletters, books and cd-roms...
...agrees Boston health-center administrator Rina Spence. Because they act as ''gatekeepers'' for all further treatment, "they're holding all the cards: the patients.'' So the other key strategy for Massachusetts teaching hospitals involves the neighborhood clinics and suburban practices, where primary-care physicians can be acquired in bulk. Partners Healthcare Systems, a newly formed holding company for the merged hospitals, has organized 402 doctors into a network covering eastern Massachusetts...