Word: folds
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DIED. LANE KIRKLAND, 77, president of the AFL-CIO from 1979 to 1995; of lung cancer; in Washington. As head of the federation, Kirkland fought to sustain the unions' waning power, in part by bringing renegades such as the U.A.W. and the Teamsters back into the fold. "All sinners belong in the church," he said...
...headphones that would have made conversation easy. The position of the bodies at the crash site suggests that Carolyn and Lauren were sitting in the rear of the six-seat cabin, behind Kennedy. Overhead lights controlled by armrest switches would have allowed them to pass the time reading; a fold-down writing table gave them a place to rest a book...
...Another World": the truth is more soap-opery than fiction. And it's incredibly distracting, to boot, because journalists love "inside baseball." The Washington Post and the Boston Globe featured dueling columns on whether hiring Eskew was a good idea. The New York Times printed a top-of-the-fold interview with Squier...
...prescription-drug coverage, would cost $118 billion over the next 10 years. But Clinton wants to add some copayments, nudge healthier people into cost-effective HMOs and increase competition among hospital-equipment contractors -? saving, by White House estimates, $44 billion over that same period. The less glamorous, below-the-fold story has the President dedicating $794 billion to Medicare over the next 15 years, a move that should extend the life of the Medicare Trust Fund from...
Milosevic probably does not watch the Sunday talk shows. But he surely was influenced in his thinking about when to hold and when to fold by his assessment of the climate of opinion in the U.S. Relentless predictions of quagmire are partly self-fulfilling. The constant carpers and gloomy doomsters of the commentariat and Capitol Hill encouraged Milosevic to think America would fold first. Thus they prolonged the war and added to the human cost they claimed to deplore. Of course, this complaint could be used to discredit dissent in any war, and often has been. Aiding and comforting...