Word: dozen
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...doctors hate Dukakis, or why the state's hospitals are no longer among the world's elite. The long-running history of clashes between Massachusetts and its doctors every so often culminates in litigation. Most recently, the end of the summer found the Attorney General Jim Shannon suing two dozen Springfield obstetricians who were discontinuing their coverage by Blue Shield. Normally providers of Blue Shield are supposed to give Blue Shield one year's notice, and the doctors had simply decided they were unhappy with the coverage. But the state's assertion that the doctors had conspired to drop...
...Israeli government was elected in a system of proportional representation, in which more than a dozen political parties garnered seats in proportion to their total popular votes. To form a ruling coalition, a group must gain the participation of a majority of parliament's 120 members. The prime minister is usually the head of the largest party in the ruling coalition...
Arab reports said nine people, including an eight-year-old boy, were wounded and scores of others were injured in at least a half-dozen clashes...
...safe with any of the above and shrimp in hot black bean sauce ($8.95). The latter is a very generous portion (a dozen large-to-middling size shrimps) in a sauce made complex by the addition of fermented black beans. The beans are the basis of a rich sauce of their own in Cantonese cookery. Here their aromas blend with the Szechwan bouquet in a way that I find very novel. Perhaps this is the "continental cuisine" of Taipei, where Chef Hou won his epaulettes at a major hotel...
...Jack Steinberger, 67, a research physicist in Geneva, Switzerland, won the award for their groundbreaking contributions to particle physics. In 1962 the three developed techniques to capture neutrinos and use them to discover other particles in the subatomic world, including the muon neutrino, believed to be one of the dozen building blocks of matter...