Word: fold
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Videopros is not the first local video store to fold in recent months. As rents rise and chains like Blockbuster and Hollywood Video dominate the market, liquidation has become the order of the day for many independents...
...nuclear fleet, in order to retain some measure of nuclear deterrent against Washington. But those efforts are already underway, because China?s missile fleet's questionable capability and vulnerability to preemptive strike severely diminished its deterrent value. To overcome these limitations, China has been working on a ten-fold expansion of its current nuclear arsenal with mobile-launched, solid-fueled, multiple-warhead missiles. So Beijing?s response is more likely to be felt in the political and diplomatic arena, where it will react to missile defense as a further attempt by Washington to "contain" China...
...problem is two-fold: for all of the atrocity in the world, the international community sends in peacekeepers only a fraction of the time, and the peacekeeping missions that do happen are undertaken by regular soldiers—who are trained at killing and not peacekeeping—and so these missions are typically mired by inefficiency. A permanent peacekeeping force would address the first problem and it would solve the second...
...said it won't attend the July meeting, though things could get awkward if Washington has pulled out of the pact and sends its representatives simply for appearances. So far the White House has not shown any sign that it can be shamed back into the Kyoto fold, though when international outrage grows strong enough, it is possible that even the most intractable government can compromise...
...homegrown portals, the sites Web-crawlers use as their home pages, are slowly bleeding to death. Years from becoming profitable, Sina, Netease and Sohu are burning through cash stockpiled from their IPOs, and their founders?China's best-known Internet heroes?are starting to wonder who among them will fold or sell out first...