Word: folds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...places circled in red. Next to the map is taped the battle plan for the final week of this campaign. Wednesday: all day canvass with phone banks. Thursday: yard sign blitz, last day to fax list of identified supporters to Concord office. Friday: field continues to throw decks and fold in new supporters, focus on plant gates. Saturday: GOTV (get out the vote) efforts continue. Election day: ward coordinators meet at targeted polling place, dispatchers come on duty and forward rider requests to drivers, maintain visibility at key locations...
...program is the public sale of $37 voucher booklets containing l,000 investment points redeemable for the stock of state-owned companies. Seven million citizens have invested in the booklets, the bulk of them since late December, when a company called Harvard Capital & Consulting promised a 10-fold increase within a year to citizens who would deposit the booklets with HC&C and let it choose which firms to buy into. The promotion spawned hundreds of imitators and boosted sales, but the privatization program in general has been dogged by chronic delays and reports of corruption...
...before they can reach the stratosphere and attack the ozone. His idea is to tune the lasers to a series of wavelengths so that only the offensive molecules would be destroyed. Admittedly, the energy requirement would still be exorbitant, but Stix believes that a 20-fold improvement in the overall efficiency of this approach could make it feasible. Even so, tens of thousands of lasers would have to be designed, tested and built before the first CFC molecule could get zapped. If this is the best idea for reviving the ozone layer, an ounce of prevention is worth more than...
...theory implies a symmetry in which particles are organized into doublets, Georgi says. Strong force, associated with three equivalent particles known as quarks, is the basis of SU(3) theory, named for three-fold symmetry...
...join, provided they are given the status of co-founders. Their move brought together, however loosely, republics with 90% of the old union's people and all its strategic nuclear weapons. Only the small border republics of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Moldavia were left temporarily outside the new fold, and they too were thinking of coming...