Word: folds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harris in John Glenn's prime; he's a better actor. The cast is stacked (down to Jeff Goldblum and Harry Shearer in small parts), the film is luxuriantly long, and darn it if it don't make you want to finally learn how to fold the flag just right. But after seeing Annie Glenn kick LBJ out of her house, CP can only hope that this time, Bill Clinton knows enough to stay away...
...most people could work them on slide rules and paper. "He was by no means a nerd," recalls Janos Lanyi, his best friend and the man who ran for the border with him. Lanyi recalls days when the two would row out to the center of a country lake, fold in their oars and study science in the springtime sun. "He was very outgoing," Lanyi says. "You could always hear him singing--in gym class...
...harder to afford, students realize they can't afford not to go: this economy pries open the gap in prospects for those with a college degree and those without. The average CEO of a large company now earns 200 times more than the average worker, up from a 40-fold difference in the 1970s, according to trend watcher and author Gerald Celente. And for those who drop out, the options for unskilled workers keep shrinking, as does the safety net beneath them if they fall out of the economy altogether...
...This common mantra among the most liberal of capital punishment foes dictates that the state execute a disproportionate number of minorities relative to whites. The NAACP asserts that in 1991, blacks comprised 12 percent of the Texan population but a full 55.5 percent of executed Texans, a ludicrous five-fold over-representation...
...years ago, Yale weekend was an adventure. With no bus ticket, I jumped on the Undergradute Council bus and sat on a fold-out seat next to the bus driver, strapped in by a two-piece harness, with my face about two inches from the enormous windshield. The next day, our team was heroic in the true sense of the word. Our men of Harvard came back from behind to win 22-21, and living vicariously through them, I rushed the field, driven in part by my blood-alcohol-level, but driven nonetheless. I was back on the same...