Word: folds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...both of its students and its resources--the 1971 agreement gave Harvard all of the income Radcliffe collected from tuition and its endowment. Radcliffe officials were increasingly unsatisfied with their lack of control. As then-chair of Radcliffe's Board of Trustees Susan S. Lyman '49 said, "When you fold your corporation into another corporation, it's over--you eliminate any power you have...
...like viruses in an epidemic. Indeed, it is largely horizontal epidemiology that we are studying when we measure the spread of a word like memetic, docudrama or studmuffin over the Internet. Crazes among schoolchildren provide particularly tidy examples. When I was about nine, my father taught me to fold a square of paper to make an origami Chinese junk. It was a remarkable feat of artificial embryology, passing through a distinctive series of intermediate stages: catamaran with two hulls, cupboard with doors, picture in a frame--and finally the junk itself, fully seaworthy or at least bathworthy, complete with deep...
Disagreements would not erupt in war, Winston Churchill said, unless the other side also believed it could win. The strongman of Serbia has once again confounded the best-laid plans of the West by fighting back when he was supposed to fold. He ceded the skies to NATO, letting the bombs and missiles rain down while barely activating his air defenses. Meanwhile, on the ground, his army pursued two-pronged tactics: pushing tens of thousands of Albanian Kosovars out of the country and engaging in a murderous offensive against the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army...
...merchants collude to drive up prices artificially. For the most part, overpaying at these electronic garage sales is the consequence of being too enthusiastic--just as it is with the old-fashioned kind. Caught up in the competitive frenzy of an auction, many people don't know when to fold their cards. Says Tim Brady, vice president of production at Yahoo: "Anybody who's the least bit competitive hates to be outbid." And that's why sellers, and investors, love it so much...
...world's best chemist. Ten years later his peers agreed. By then, The Nature of the Chemical Bond (1939) was already on its way to becoming the most influential chemistry book of the century. His biggest biological success came from his 1951 proposal of the alpha-helical fold for protein molecules, which everybody else thought were too large and complex to study. His findings were quickly verified, and Linus' confidence was never higher...