Word: fold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...room as an ordinary tire, can be inflated when needed with a Freon gas can. Developed by B. F. Goodrich, the minispare is guaranteed to last 1,000 miles, will retail at $32.80. Goodrich is also working on a tire whose sidewalls, in the event of a puncture, will fold inward, leaving the tread to form a tight, flexible band around the wheel. Former Chrysler President William C. Newberg's entry may be the most novel of all. The device, called PosiTrac, is a steel rim fixed to the metal wheel inside an ordinary tire, capped with a thick...
...busy with money all day long and have no heart for study. The reason is simple: tuition is, too high, generally beyond the ability of the average student to pay. Over the past ten years or more, the school fees of a private university have jumped nearly ten-fold! Except for the children of rich families, most students have found it exceedingly difficult to pay such a big sum for school fees. In order to make some money, they cannot help, as soon as the school bell rings to dismiss school, rushing to various hotels, restaurants, and coffee houses...
...Prince told me. Colonial club president. Bruce Hazard thinks that this sudden money problem could have come because the alumni is finding more important things to donate their money to. Twentieth century egalitarianism could be catching. If it is, the clubs, which have very large budgets, could soon fold when the alumni decide to give them less money. Colonial, for example, employs ten full-time servants, and things get very expensive...
...blundering years, I've paid between 7½% and 8½% sales charge on the seven funds I've bought. I'm so angry I'd sell them all now, except that I'd be charged an excessive capital gains tax for the four-fold appreciation...
...solution to the Chemistry Department's dilemma is two-fold -- increase the number of lower level courses offered and program these new courses so that a student can direct his studies into the fields of specialization that most interest...