Word: foldings
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...nowhere else) that a Brigham Young University professor has found that over 40 per cent of stiffs kick within three months of their birthdays. Wouldn't you be apprehensive if after Sunday your chances of going to you final resting place (Fathers Six) were going to increase three-fold? If this column fails to appear some week in the near future, you will know I haven't just been blown off in the shop, as we say in the news business, which happened last week...
...suddenly one of the hotter teams in Division One, does not seem to have the capacity to fold. The Engineers have won four in a row, have three games left at home, and have adhered themselves to seventh place, all in a week's time...
...generation of increasing division of labor and greater economic productivity has transformed French society and the French alike. The focus of French life has shifted from the small village to the industrial metropolis; less than 10 per cent of the French are employed in agriculture. A five-fold increase in the number of working women signals an important shift in social mores. An extensive transportation network and greater radio and television penetration has forced provincial peasants to attempt to grapple with and understand the ideas and values of a technocratic society while their old traditions are repudiated by those ostensibly...
...head coach Joe Bernal puts the whole thing into perspective though. "They've been the champs five years in a row," he said, "and they just won't fold overnight. They sense it's gonna be a shootout today...
...adversity. "Some people look upon any setback as the end. They're always looking for the benediction rather than the invocation. Most of us have enough problems so that almost any day we could fold up and say: 'I've had it.' But you can't quit. That isn't the way our country was built...