Word: folds
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Other priorities are more peculiar to Helms. According to a staff memorandum obtained last week by TIME, Helms has chosen some personal priorities: to examine whether to fold the Foreign Service into the civil service; to reconsider Washington's relations with the U.N.; to do away with the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; and to investigate whether foreign aid could be replaced by the Overseas Private Investment Corp., a federal agency that helps U.S. capitalists make investments in developing nations. Helms can also be counted on to ride several other hobbyhorses: his hatred for all communist regimes, including China...
...Hartwick didn't intend to fold over in the second half, and perhaps with memories of last year's 4-1 loss (the Warriors were ranked in the top 15 then) still in mind, it attacked quickly and forcefully...
Even U.S. allies like France and Turkey that had helped fight the Gulf War were eager to welcome Iraq back into the fold. For months Baghdad had been negotiating deals with former trading partners, all of them hoping to reopen a hugely lucrative market. And Iraq was making progress on other fronts: Rolf Ekeus, the U.N. official charged with setting up the system to monitor weapons building inside Iraq, was about to report to the Security Council that Iraq was in provisional compliance with that significant U.N. requirement...
...three media mavens wouldn't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. But last week's word that the entertainment industry's most successful director, most revered studio chief and most creative billionaire were forming their own company smote Hollywood with nuclear force. Spielberg will fold his unit, Amblin, into the new organization (though he may still direct outside projects). Katzenberg will run the studio; late last week the two men were tooling around Los Angeles in Katzenberg's Mustang, looking for a studio lot. And Geffen will make music make money...
...such games as poker and chess, introduced the distinction between cooperative games, in which players form binding agreements, and noncooperative ones, in which they don't. His "Nash Equilibrium" has been used by generations of corporate and military strategists to help decide when to hold 'em and when to fold...