Word: folds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...failure of Reagan's program to avoid the shoals of a treacherous recession caused people to vote their pocketbooks and restored, at least temporarily, the traditional Democratic coalition. Blue-collar workers in particular returned to the fold with a vengeance. Says Tony Pinello, a local union president in New Jersey: "A lot of our members, maybe as many as 50%, were swingers in 1980 and voted Reagan. They came back because of unemployment, unemployment and unemployment...
...ready to consider, Washington has encountered yet another daunting obstacle: the fanatical intransigence of Roberto d'Aubuisson's ARENA party. Although D'Aubuisson indicated only a month ago that he accepted the prospect of bringing the rebellious left back into the country's political fold by 1984, some observers suspect that he has lost control of the more extreme members of his party. Says a U.S. official: "Every time D'Aubuisson does something responsible, the crazies around him get upset...
...always operated on a shoe-string. But recently, a number of debts have become critical, and the magazine's trustees have had to bail it out on several occasions. Last April, an audit by the I. R. S. led to repeated (and unfounded) rumors that the Advocate would fold. Although the audit was actually prompted by a technical mix-up of the magazine's tax-exempt status, the prevalence of these rumors illustrate another equally acute problem that the Advocate staff has had to deal with recently: a general loss of readership and respect in the Harvard undergraduate community...
...case, or if they stay home because they believe the Democrats are offering no alternatives, the Republicans will do well. But many strategists were saying last week that they sense a Republican Waterloo, with blue-collar workers joining the jobless and the worried in returning to the Democratic fold. "The fear factor is still there," says Representative Tony Coelho of California, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "It's there with those who fear their job is next." Says Nancy Sinnott of the National Republican Congressional Committee: "Unemployment may be hurting us more than we thought...
...American rich getting richer and flocking to their very own indigenous Mercedes. But from the viewpoint of business horse sense, of which De Lorean is said to have had plenty, it only looks as if the man was deliberately trying to fail. When the company is about to fold, the hard-nose founder with two master's degrees decides to deal dope in order to rescue it. Wild...