Word: giant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slowing it down and I puttered around my room for a few minutes while I waited for it to start. Rather than the familiar hum of the Cookie Monster start-up screen, though, there was silence. I glanced over and saw a blank gray screen, with a giant question mark blinking ominously...
...pressure to get big--and to use that leverage against other competitors, doctors and hospitals--is spreading like a virus through the entire industry. "These giant health-care mergers are happily galloping toward an oligopoly," says Sara Nichols, Washington director of the nonprofit Physicians for a National Health Care Program. Wall Street analysts foresee a day in the not-too-distant future when the whole country's health-care needs will be largely served by a handful of providers...
WHEN ROSEANNE CONNER took her television family on vacation to Disney World a month ago, TV's most cynical sitcom clan seemed to have been injected with happy juice. "Man, it's so clean!" marveled Dan, on first seeing the home of Space Mountain and giant Goofy impersonators. "I want to be worthy of living here!" exclaimed Roseanne's sister Jackie. Daughter Darlene was a sour holdout at first, but even she was won over--by a big hug from Winnie the Pooh...
...fully anticipate the wrath of several generations of possessive children when we declare that the new Disney film of James and the Giant Peach is an improvement on Roald Dahl's 1961 backyard fantasy. Director Henry Selick and his team of screenwriters (Karey Kirkpatrick, Jonathan Roberts, Steve Bloom) and technical specialists have given the story balance and emotional heft. Mixing stylized live action with stop-motion animation, they have reconciled the tale's realistic and surreal elements and, in five sprightly Randy Newman tunes, made the story sing...
...spite of the crush, race-day logistics and weather were flawless. Despite a warm day for a marathon, each runner was given a silver mylar blanket to prevent hypothermia after crossing the finish line. "Under the bright, sunny skies, the thousands and thousands of shiny blankets looked like this giant school of fish coming down Boston street," says Allis. "It was immense...