Word: fold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That is what this deal--twice the size of any previous merger--is all about. SBC is the old Baby Bell Southwestern Bell plus the Baby Bell it recently acquired, Pacific Telesis. If the deal goes through, AT&T will have gathered two erstwhile independent carriers back into its fold. It's a short step from there to continue to buy. Might it be a good thing? Well, maybe. Global competition is a reality. It may just be that one huge American phone company is what it will take to match wits with British Telecom and Nippon Telephone...
Every year, Harvard attracts a more talented and diverse group of students than it ever has before. Every year, Harvard pulls more of the world's top academics into its synergistic fold. Every year, Harvard acquires more of the nation's dollars for higher education, both in the form of a skyrocketing endowment and in perpetual dominance of the market for outside funds...
...purposes and turned it over to industry for cell-phone service--at a price. The government collected $20.3 billion in granting PCS licenses for nearly 500 markets from New York City to Liberal, Kansas. Michael Elling, an analyst for Prudential Securities, estimates that PCS systems will create a 15-fold increase in wireless capacity within three to five years...
Where Weil wins many of his critics back, however--and where the genius of his appeal may lie--is when he avoids straying from the medical fold at all. Throughout his books he concedes that for all the promise of his alternative cures, sometimes the best answer is the one consumers are most familiar with: the high-tech medicine of the industrialized West...
Huber's research is two-fold: it focuses both on the structure and function of biological macro-molecules and on their functional importance. Additionally, he studies experimental methods for the X-ray crystallography of proteins...