Word: fold
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...benefits, especially in stroke victims, would be two-fold, Benowitz said, according to his laboratory research. A major problem with strokes is that not only are cells damaged, but also, cells that are not immediately killed lose their connections and die out over time...
...this NASDAQ tech talk about bottoms, sectors and valuation bubbles hasn't meant much to Dow investors lately, who have tended to save their big reactions for top-of-the-fold items that, say, a Fed chairman might worry about...
...retrospect, of course, 1990 was a great time to be loading up on stocks. Since a bear market ended late that year, the NASDAQ has risen 10-fold and the Dow more than fourfold. Whether the next decade will prove as profitable is an interesting question but one that, frankly, can't be answered. Long-term investors can take comfort in knowing that the overwhelming odds are for stocks to be higher a decade from now. But that doesn't help much in times like these, when all you really want to know is whether the bloodletting is nearly over...
Imagine the Serbian leader's surprise when the opposition didn't just fold. He had counted on its usual spineless disunity. He didn't realize the uncharismatic Kostunica was the critical ingredient that let Serbs imagine an alternative future. He didn't know how bitterly Serbs blamed him for their blighted lives. The accumulated woes of $45-a-month salaries or no employment at all, four lost wars and untold thousands of lost Yugoslav lives, the NATO bombing that dashed an impoverished economy into visible ruins, the bitter years of sanctions and international opprobrium. Domestic repression and self-serving propaganda...
Such proletarian computing systems are doing some impressively high-end work. A Stanford University lab recently launched Folding@home, a public project that uses the technology to investigate how proteins fold into the shapes that determine their function. Meanwhile, Distributed.net is working with the U.K.'s Sanger Centre to help map the human genome...