Word: folds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about Ronald Reagan." As the oratory thunders toward its November climax, Democratic planners have high hopes that millions of traditional party voters, frightened by visions of Reagan, the ideologue, and viewing a vote for Independent Candidate John Anderson as a ballot thrown away, will return, however grudgingly, to the fold. One politician unimpressed by the likelihood of any such Democratic unity is Ronald Reagan. Said he last weekend: "I shall forever remember the final scene that night when the Senator from Massachusetts joined the President on the platform. If that's the best they can do in unity, they have...
...which had abandoned gavel-to-gavel coverage in 1976, returned to the fold this time. But the paucity of real news in Detroit raised questions about whether conventions should be covered so exhaustively. Fewer than half the homes watching TV last week were tuned to the convention; the top audience was Wednesday, when 54% were watching. Asked about this, network executives trot out Cronkite's dictum that the quadrennial spectacle is an important "civics lesson." Arledge of ABC, however, sees an end to the full nightly coverage. "It doesn't make any sense," he said. "It just shows...
...issue, featuring a cover story on a TV evangelist, was to have been its last. Instead it will be the first for a born-again Harper's (circ. 325,000), the nation's oldest monthly, at age 130. Just three weeks after the announcement that it would fold came word of its rescue by a pair of private foundations...
...cause tuberculosis and leprosy, the bug is what scientists dub an intracellular pathogen. It invades white blood cells called monocytes, which normally kill bacteria, and uses material within these cells to propagate-in droves. In one experiment at Rockefeller, Legionella added to a culture of monocytes increased 100,000-fold within days...
...newspapers must turn elsewhere for funding, and the ones that fail to find a supporter will fold. Modern Times was not destined to such a fate: Mr. Shah admits that the government subsidizes him 1000 rupees ($85), about one quarter of his monthly costs, just enough to keep his paper at subsistence. It is little secret that India, China and the Soviet Union also fund a number of Nepalese papers and Shah acknowledges as much. "When you have a Communist state on the north and a democratic state on the south, you just can't insulate Nepal from these influences...