Word: chunk
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...investor group controls 28.7% of Continental Airlines, and RICHARD C. BLUM, a key Northwest Airlines board member, recently held a secret meeting in the very conspicuous Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles. If the two can work out the snags -- such as the fact that Air Canada owns a chunk of Continental -- Bonderman and Blum could make a deal that would shake up the airline industry...
After losing a sizable chunk of last year's squad, not many would have predicted a return trip to the NCAA Division I Championships for Harvard. But the Crimson (14-7) has surprised its followers this year, and its strong season has culminated in an invitation to the season-ending tournament...
Losing Drury, Mallgrave and Flomenhoft, however, means more than just losing a major chunk of scoring...
Hospitals further rechannel the health care dollar to pay the pharmaceutical companies. This chunk of the health budget is growing--medical technology continues to surge ahead at a breakneck pace, bringing with it skyrocketing costs for designing and testing frontline drugs. As the average life expectancy lengthens, the desire to prolong a high quality of living will spur the use of more and more expensive medications...
...exquisitely sensuous prose. The sisters are the title characters of the book, and there is much female activity, including cooking, childbearing and lovemaking, but Hijuelos is much too macho a writer to surrender himself entirely to a feminine -- don't even think about feminist -- world. Thus a big chunk of the book focuses on brother Emilio's exploits as he fights in Italy during World War II, beds his way through postwar Greenwich Village, beats the odds in Hollywood, where he plays Tarzan and Sam Spade-style detectives in B movies, and eventually gains fame as a celebrity photographer...