Word: folds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Coatings, of St. Paul, has built a thriving international business (1987 sales: $10 million) by using a Soviet technique for coating metal implements with gold-colored titanium nitride. The superhard coating protects drill bits and other parts from wear and corrosion, increasing their life-span from threefold to 30-fold...
...points from Le Pen's first-round total. That support, they thought, would come mainly from disenchanted Communists in working-class districts, where Le Pen sentiment was often strongest. Such voters had cast anti- immigrant protest ballots in the first round, but were expected to return to the leftist fold in the runoff. An additional 2 points of support was expected from Barre voters. All that would push Mitterrand over the top with nearly...
...estimated $300 million. In exchange, Griffin will sell Resorts' nearly completed Taj Mahal hotel-casino, other real estate and its fleet of helicopters to Trump, assets that the developer says are primarily what he wanted. While both sides claimed success, Griffin clearly foiled Trump in his plan to fold the entire Resorts company into his casino empire...
...reporters covered the Iowa campaign. In the end it turned out to be less important than the Michigan Democratic caucuses, for which nary an exit poll was taken. Even Iowa's runners-up have done poorly: Pat Robertson and Paul Simon are likely to be the next to fold...
Last Wednesday morning, after his defeat in Illinois, Dole returned to the Senate floor, too proud to appear vulnerable or idle. When colleagues warmly welcomed him to their fold, he snapped, "I'm not back." Serenity has never come easily to Dole. "If you're out there and you've been twisting in the wind for six or seven months and you start to smell a little," he said in Chicago, "then maybe somebody has to cut the rope...