Word: fold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fresh look at the one component that has hardly changed since the earliest days of computing -- or, for that matter, the earliest days of typewriting 125 years ago. The result is a new crop of alternative keyboards that take the standard flat, rectangular input device and bend, split, fold and twist it almost beyond recognition...
...figure represents a more than ten-fold increase over last year's 1.1 percent rate of return. Last year's rate fell more than six percentage points below the 1992 average for American universities as reported by the National Association of College and University Business Officers...
...privileges at the club because he was Governor -- he wasn't a member -- but he agreed that his continuing to play there would look bad. When he did it anyway, it struck some of us as a sort of Gary Hart-like death wish. When Bill didn't fold, like Gary, we put it out of our minds. But this new flurry of draft stuff has caused us to wonder again. We thought he had learned that Henry Kissinger was right when he said that political survival demands that 'whatever will come out eventually come out immediately.' We thought...
Clinton continued revising his speech, adding a few lines inviting Perot's followers into the Democratic fold. Late in the afternoon, when some aides complained that the speech was too long, the candidate defended it by claiming that it had fewer words than Michael Dukakis' 1988 oration. Actually, the Massachusetts Governor's text was shorter, and his lightning-fast diction made his delivery time shorter still. In his own laid-back drawl, Clinton took about 55 minutes to deliver his address. Recalling the fiasco of Clinton's interminable 1988 speech, his verbosity last week seemed on the verge of losing...
When Tower Records and HMV opened giant outlets in Cambridge everyone worried that the grungy, groovy hole-in-the-wall record shops that give the Square a college town atmosphere would fold under pressure from the big, slick high-tech chains...