Word: fold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...though the annual difference between what we and the Japanese have spent on defense -- a gap of 4 percentage points -- seems small, small numbers compound. An economy growing 3% a year for 45 years quadruples. Not bad. But an economy growing 4 points faster, at 7%, grows 21-fold! This is, very roughly, the difference in the way the Japanese and U.S. economies have expanded since 1945. And it has nothing to do with IQ scores...
...does not regard any existing nation as truly communist. The Soviet Union left the fold in the 1960s under Krushchev, and China itself fell from grace with the rise of China's current leader, Deng Xiaoping, Lawrence says...
...Soviet army, Kremlin control seemed to hang by a thread last week in yet another Soviet republic. This time rioting and looting, followed by direct intervention by the Soviet army, took place in Dushanbe, capital of Tadzhikistan, a little-known republic (pop. 5.1 million) tucked into a mountainous fold of Central Asia between Afghanistan and China...
...statistics released by the U.S. Department of Education and the American Council on Education, Drewry insists that Asian-Americans are well-represented in most faculties and Ph.D. programs. However, according to a 1988 Education Department report titled Increasing Minority Faculty: An Elusive Goal, Blacks and Hispanics have proportionally three-fold greater affinity for humanities Ph.D.'s than do Asian-Americans. The report flatly states, "Asian-Americans are highly concentrated in fields such as engineering and computer science..." The average salary of Asian-American professors also lags behind that of whites, Hispanics, and Blacks...
...Tigers took a 4-3 lead into the final two matches, but the Crimson refused to fold. Sophomore Mary Greenhill provided inspiration by thrashing her Tiger opponent...