Word: bunche
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...deadline triggered a frenzy of late-night telephone calls among local phone companies (the so-called Baby Bells), the major long-distance phone companies, the big cable-TV operators and a bunch of cellular-phone start-ups. When the dust settled, the biggest player on the field -- the partnership of AT&T and McCaw Cellular Communications -- was being challenged by two other behemoths: a joint venture formed by Sprint and a trio of cable TV operators; and a foursome of Baby Bells made up of Bell Atlantic, NYNEX, US West and the cellular spin-off of Pacific Telesis. After being...
...parochial and that the DEA often gets manipulated by corrupt governments. The junta, they say, set up splashy drug busts for the Americans that traffickers were happy to treat as a cost of doing business. "The DEA," says an intelligence source,"was being played for a patsy by a bunch of Burmese military folks who were getting a cut of the action...
...Lidia Simmons, an' Ah'm 12 yeahs ol'. An' these here're mah memoirs." Jeez Louise -- it's Forrest Gump as a girl! With scenes of slow-talking good guys in the U.S. South and dead buddies on Vietnam battlefields, The War might seem the first in a bunch of Gumpthings hoping to replicate that film's $285 million success story. But on a smaller scale, The War is a bigger movie and, for all its weepy trappings, a more adventurous one. It hints that it will be a familiar, Stand by Me-ish rite-of-passage picture; then...
Bill Cosby started the trend in 1986 with Fatherhood. A bunch of his stand- up material collected in 178 easy-to-read pages. Sold 2.5 million copies in hardback and spent 55 weeks on the best-seller list. Then last year came SeinLanguage, which has sold 1.2 million so far. Like people aren't getting enough of this guy on Thursday nights...
...pipeline that ruptured was evidently the worst of a bad bunch. "It was corroded and had holes all over it," says Mikhail Bernstein, an executive at a construction firm that was hired last August to replace the 19-year-old conduit. Local officials don't disagree. "We all know the pipeline should have been repaired," said Vyacheslav Bibikov, Vice President of the Komi republic, in a testy meeting with reporters last week. "There's no money for it." Rather than stop the flow of oil and lose income, Komineft erected earthworks to contain the gathering crude. When the autumn rains...