Word: folds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...emerged from his office and addressed a group of students on his South Africa policy. His reasons for maintaining Harvard's investments in South Africa were two-fold. Firstly, he argued that divestment would only harm Black South Africans. (They would lose, he argued, the protection of the Sullivan principle which rate how well American companies work to end discrimination against South African Blacks in the workplace.) Secondly, he said that divestment would threaten the University's independence as an educational institution...
...decision to fold the News American comes at a time when Hearst (estimated 1985 revenues: $1.5 billion) seems to be losing patience with papers that produce persistent losses. In 1982, Hearst, which still has 14 newspapers, including the San Francisco Examiner and the Seattle Post- Intelligencer, sold the struggling Boston Herald American to Publisher Rupert Murdoch, who has since revitalized the paper with a feisty new style...
...development office, Harvard's central fundraising organization, can expect to capitalize on the reunion excitement even more. "My guess is that we will be getting a lot more back than seven fold [greater than the reunions' $905,000 cost]," says Reardon...
...known to scientists is the T-helper lymphocyte, called "the general" of white blood cells because it helps orchestrate the body's defense. The AIDS virus entwines itself in the fundamental genetic material at the cell's nucleus, where it uses the cell's own mechanisms to reproduce many-fold. The viruses then destroy that cell and escape to invade others...
...seems, was the end of a beautiful friendship and the start of what could be one of the keenest TV rivalries in many a season. Rivers, who has been the Tonight show's permanent "guest host" for the past three years, announced that she is leaving the NBC fold. Her new job: host of a talk show that will compete directly with Carson on independent stations starting this fall...