Word: fold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jacobs' conflation of fact and fiction. In effect, the legendary showman leads a kind of geek chorus of real and imagined religious zealots, yellow journalists, gangsters and robber barons. The Wall Street rogue Jay Gould actually sells someone a piece of the Brooklyn Bridge. A Jewish peddler leaves the fold to become a dowser for parched anti-Semites. Hull changes the name of a new cigar from Pickaninny to Uncle Tom after hearing that black smokers might be offended...
Gore's speech, which made ample use of fold-out charts and graphs, was littered with numbers and arcane scientific theories...
Carlson said his campaign strategy is two-fold: raising as much as $100,000 for campaign expenses and "getting to every voter" door to door. He said he believes two important issues in the race are education and infrastructure...
...find it. In March, 1994, two days before the Energy Department granted $9 million in research funds to Molten Metal Technology, its chairman donated $50,000 to the Nancy Gore Hunger Chair of Excellence in Global Environmental Studies. Knight, then actively lobbying the department for what was a nine-fold increase in the grants, thanked Molten chairman Bill Haney in a March 14 letter, calling the chair a "very personal priority for the Vice President" and adding, "I can assure you that your contribution will never be forgotten." Spokesmen for Gore, Knight, and Haney all deny any connection between...
According to Purnell, the leaders of AYSC are "very contented" with the organization's recent admission into the PBHA fold...