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Word: folds (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gutsiest showing came from captain Linsley, who failed to fold despite a leg injury, coming home seventh with an 18:30 time. And when Kristin took 11th in 19:16, just ahead of a field of red UMass shirts, Harvard had the victory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ...As Women Smoke UMass, Brandeis | 9/27/1978 | See Source »

...earthquake reached 7.7 on the Richter scale. The Richter scale is a measure of ground motion recorded on seismographs. Every increase of one number means a ten-fold increase in the magnitude of the earthquake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Massive Earthquake Devastates Iran, Killing 15,000 and Destroying Towns | 9/19/1978 | See Source »

...News. Rupert Murdoch, publisher of the struck Post, reportedly signed an agreement to buy the Metro if Publisher Iseman ever wants to sell it. Iseman insisted he has no such plans, but some of the city's numerous Murdoch-haters speculated that the Australian's hidden motive is to fold the ailing Post and use the strike paper as the basis for a new, nonunion daily. More likely, both Murdoch and his allies at the Times want merely to make sure that their distribution networks keep busy and that New Yorkers retain the habit of reading local newspapers?which many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Filling the Inkless Void | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...action that could once more throw the area into chaos. Washington was also worried about Saudi Arabia's pressure on Sadat to reconcile his differences with Syrian President Hafez Assad. That could lead to an Arab summit at which Egypt would be accepted back into the Arab fold, thereby bringing the current negotiations to an end and raising new uncertainties about what course the Arab world might then take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: A Move in the Chess Game | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

...dump marginal and money-losing routes. The biggest lines would have an advantage over smaller ones because they could concentrate their vast fleets on the most lucrative markets. They could also use their financial muscle to set rates at such low levels that weaker lines would be forced to fold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Flying the Crowded Skies | 8/14/1978 | See Source »

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