Word: fold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there. Not only are single women encouraged to have a child, they are encouraged to have more than one. For each additional child, a welfare mother receives cash benefits that are often spent on anything but diapers. The end result of such incentives has been a more than five-fold increase in the rate of illegitimacy over the past 35 years...
This nearly six-fold increase made corporate sponsored research at universities the fastest growing component of all research expenditures in the nation...
...past, the impetuous, mercurial Turner has been frustrated by Time Warner's blocking of his planned acquisitions, such as his attempt last year to buy nbc. But in 1987 Levin envisioned folding the Turner enterprises into the Time Warner combination, even before Time Inc. bought Warner Communications. Time Warner executives have courted Turner for years, hoping to get him to fold his company into theirs. The sticking point was always the role Turner would play after such a merger. The offer last week of the vice chairmanship represented a significant concession by Levin...
...benign than that boy scout of financial instruments, the municipal bond? What town has not floated an issue to build a road? What little old lady (or big mutual fund) has not heard an accountant extol "munis" as the most foolproof of investments? Lending to companies is risky: they fold overnight, leaving squabbling creditors. But municipalities don't disappear from the map; and knowing they will borrow more tomorrow, they will do anything -- even raise taxes-to avoid defaulting today...
...some sort of national hormonal cycle. Wilson's book did wonders for the sale of Premarin (a form of estrogen made from -- and named for -- a pregnant mare's urine). But estrogen use plummeted after 1975, when studies revealed that women taking the hormone had up to a 14-fold increased risk of uterine cancer. Reports of a 30% increased risk of breast cancer scared away many others...