Word: fold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Fifty years ago today in The Crimson, an above-the-fold front-page story told of a meeting of the American Veterans Committee (AVC) on campus. The attendees were not to be old men plodding around with walking sticks, but students from colleges all over New England. Harvard's chapter of the AVC, acting out of that eternal University spirit that places this place at the center of it all, joined with the Boston University chapter to welcome 40 delegations to a conference entitled "Problems of the Student Veteran." The student veteran...
...child of the Depression, he first pulled the lever for F.D.R. Then, like the American electorate, he zigzagged between Democrat and Republican: Truman, then Ike, J.F.K. and L.B.J., before deciding that Nixon was the one. He returned to the Democratic fold with Jimmy Carter, voted twice for the Gipper, once for George Bush and then opted for Bill Clinton last time around...
...Crimson's overriding interst, which we share, appears to be two-fold; whether Radcliffe is financially healthy, and whether the College invests appropriately in its undergraduates...
...McColgan is a young Republican trying to pull the conservative Third District into the G.O.P. fold. He first ran against incumbent Robert Borski in 1990--losing by 20 points, better than any Republican since 1982--and feels that his respectable showing in that race will generate votes in this election. The major question is whether he can convince working-class Democrats that the Republican fiscal platform is no threat to their jobs and entitlements...
...executive and president Jeffrey Erickson announced his resignation late Thursday, on the day the airline posted a $14.3 million quarterly loss linked to the July crash of TWA flight 800. The tragedy reversed the remarkable financial turnaround that was underway at the long-floundering company, which posted a 400-fold gain in its second-quarter earnings on July 17, the day of the crash. Erickson, 51, said he would step down in January. As investigators increasingly focus on possible mechanical failure as a leading theory for the crash, amid speculation, accurate or not, suggesting the possibility that TWA could have...