Word: folds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rather "a network of networks." During his extended prime, Billy spoke for many of these. If his gradual journey from a narrowly exclusive vision of Christianity to the embrace of almost anybody willing to accept Jesus alienated the movement's Fundamentalist wing, it brought untold numbers into the fold. It resonated particularly well during the prosperous post-World War II years, with the emphasis on American unity...
...only concern [after the Bucknell loss] was that they might fold," Travers said. "But they came right back. They were determined to show that our loss to Bucknell was not our true level of play...
...There was tremendous irony in the quote on one poster which doubtless many did not even stop to read: "Six million were wiped off the face of the earth. And there is the danger that they will also be annihilated from our memories. Are they doomed to a two-fold annihilation?" Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel's haunting question remains unanswered. Only time will tell...
Some might say these facts mesh well with perceptions shared by many Harvard students that the BCC attempts to entrap the vulnerable within its fold...
...produce short-term joblessness, there is no evidence that rising productivity leads to increased long-term unemployment. As an economy progresses technologically, it creates new industries, new consumer goods and new services which absorb the jobs lost to more efficient, older industries. America's productivity has grown twelve-fold in the past century, but our employment rate is certainly not one-twelfth of what it used...