Word: fold
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...announced he would leave NIH to become president and chief executive of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, one of the nation's largest cancer hospitals. The move brought him closer to his two children, who live in Queens, and increased his salary almost six-fold--to nearly $1 million a year. It also meant the end of his long-time habit of bicycling to work...
...passion and spontaneity with which they are carried out makes one thing certain: The most routine program on Univision is a thousand times more compelling than the sad fare being offered up on Nick at Night these days (when "Facts of Life" becomes "classic TV," it's time to fold up your tents, fellas...
...they can't win with a payroll of $45 million, they should just pare it down to $15 million and take their chances. It forces every team in the league to compete. And if your market is too small to meet this burden, then it is time to either fold up shop or move...
...miscast their votes, would seem like spiteful attempts to delay the inevitable. Late last week, sources told TIME, Daley and Christopher quietly informed the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate, Dick Gephardt and Tom Daschle, that if Gore couldn't win on the hand recounts, the campaign would fold its tent. They cautioned that "the principals aren't there yet"--Gore and Joe Lieberman weren't yet ready to go along--"but they will be." Daley and Christopher would find a way to get the message to them...
...whizziest new device, an ultrafast form of computer scanning called electron-beam computer tomography (EBCT), picks up the presence of tiny deposits of calcium in the heart. One study based on the scan showed that patients who build up 20% or more calcium each year have an 18-fold greater chance of suffering a heart attack than those with less calcium in their hearts...