Word: fold
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EDUCATION A lesson from Stanford's president: Know when to fold them...
...almost every major election that has been held during the past two years. While communist rule goes unchallenged in the conservative Central Asian republics, the party is virtually a marginal opposition group in Georgia, Armenia and the Baltic republics. Rank-and-file members across the country are deserting the fold in droves. Some 4 million have left the party during the past 18 months, reducing total membership to 15 million...
...snatch) is a fair description of the job to which House Democrats last week elected Michigan's David Bonior. As majority whip, the bearded, low-key Bonior, 46, is now responsible for counting heads prior to key votes and twisting the arms of Democrats who stray from the party fold. The eight-term Congressman also becomes the third-ranking House Democrat, replacing Pennsylvania's William Gray on the House escalator that often leads to the jobs of majority leader and then Speaker. Gray resigned last month to head up the United Negro College Fund...
...Park Presbyterian Church. Already alarmed at liberal trends among the national leadership, Highland Park members voted 2,563 to 2,001 last month to quit the denomination altogether. They fell short of a required two- thirds majority, so the church and its $47 million property remain within the official fold. But 1,000 or more dissenters walked out to start a new congregation. Joining them is physician Grady Crosland, who served on the Body and Soul panel and opposed its work. "The denomination is rotten," he snaps. "No use staying around to shoot a rabid...
...competitive hype points to a harsh reality: as surely as a flush beats a straight, some of the riverboat ventures are destined to fold. "I am concerned about saturation if every state gets it," admits Bernard Goldstein, owner of Emerald Lady and Diamond Lady, which docks in Bettendorf, Iowa. Michael Jones, director of the Illinois state lottery through the mid-1980s, warns that the potential audience for the novelty cruises may be smaller than boosters imagine. For one thing, he notes, lottery players and higher-stakes gamblers are different animals. While lottery enthusiasts may sample riverboat gambling once or twice...