Word: fold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with the future so bright, the owners call a lockout. I say, let the league fold. These idiots aren't even smart enough to take advantage of the position they are in. Baseball owners at least know that the fans will always come back...
...This year we've improved so much," Jose said. "The improvement has largely been in our mental outlook. It used to be that we would fold in games if we got down or if we though the other team would catch up. We don't do that anymore...
...which runs two private schools in Eagan, Minnesota, and Paradise Valley, Arizona, designed as laboratories to refine new teaching methods, as well as nine schools in Baltimore, Maryland, and one in South Florida. Landing an entire district represents an enormous coup: the Hartford deal will increase annual revenues six-fold, from $34 million for the past fiscal year to approximately $200 million...
...desperate citizenry might rebel; a demoralized army could conceivably fold. "Nobody wants to fight for Saddam anymore," says the expatriate Iraqi. "Four thousand Americans could march in and take Baghdad." But the deprivations may also have sapped any stirrings of revolt. "There is no energy to fight the regime," says Soli Ozel, an assistant professor of Middle East studies at Johns Hopkins. "People are just scrambling to find food. Saddam is more powerful than ever...
Their hope was three-fold: to give children there the opportunity to play soccer and to have a safe sport area which would help bind the community together; to give a precious new possession to a run-down area; and to lift people's spirits and their pride in the community. They were slapped in the face...