Word: majority
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years the sports market has been dominated by baseball, basketball, football and hockey. But lately those major sports have seen their TV ratings slide, even as the fees that the leagues charge the networks for broadcast rights have skyrocketed. We just watched--or didn't watch--the lowest-rated World Series in history. Monday Night Football audiences are down 10% compared with last season. The extra commercials that networks air to offset their higher costs have only prompted viewers to channel-surf more frequently away from the major sports. Big-salaried athletes with bad attitudes have been turning off fans...
...series by Don Barlett and Jim Steele on the folly of corporate welfare. Barlett and Steele came to Time Inc. 18 months ago from the Philadelphia Inquirer, where, over 26 years, they earned their reputations as America's finest investigative reporters. Along the way they garnered almost every major journalistic prize, including two Pulitzers--for stories on auditing practices of the IRS and special tax breaks engineered by Congress--two Loeb awards for business reporting and four George Polk awards...
...point, be prepared for memos that tell you more than you ever want to know," says Steve Lovelady, the Time Inc. editor-at-large who worked on this project and who, as the Inquirer's managing editor before that, worked with Don and Jim on half a dozen other major series...
...godsend, liberating idea for him was the one he got simultaneously from looking at modern art and listening to his therapists: the principle that art could ultimately depend not on acquired talents but on inner resources, no matter how disturbed that inner life was." But could you make major art based largely on pent-up mythic fictions from outside your own cultural frame...
There are five major pieces of information you have to supply. The first is your age, which turns out to be one of the most important risk factors. (In the U.S., the annual incidence of breast cancer in women 80 to 85 years old is 15 times as high as that in women 30 to 34 years old.) That is followed by your age at first menstruation, age when you delivered your first child, number of breast biopsies and family history of breast cancer. The program does not work for women who have already had breast cancer; doctors for years...