Prosperity is likely to depress turnout among mainstream folk, so activists will be decisive.
So Russian folk-wisdom advises, and so Boris Yeltsin has been doing in the days since he rose from his sick bed to resume a semblance of work.
But unemployment matters to folk - and so it has a lasting political impact.
And this is going to sound strange in one sense, because religion to black folk has been so special...
Precisely because so many folk have labels hanging round their necks, the man of no category is precious.
So while folk in the west of Wales may complain about Treasury stinginess, the best chance of improving their lot is still largely in their own hands.
As less-educated Americans saw their incomes fall, he suggested, politicians encouraged reckless mortgage lending so that poorer folk could keep up their living standards by borrowing.
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Some so-called folk musics are in fact quite recent products.
While it's certainly not a stretch to envision how quickly a Wii Sports battle could morph into a full-fledged spat, the world's largest retailer is apparently playing it safe by keeping those untethered Wiimotes out of the unpredictable hands of youngsters (and us not-so-young folk, too).
They are also acutely aware of how richer folk live, because they watch so much television.
Even, comparable to the folk tale of Victorians putting trousers on pianos so no one could see the legs.
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The venture folk are unlikely to have got their sums so dramatically wrong.
If there haven't been any of those either, they have to refer to similar transactions that other banks have been involved in which Barclays folk have themselves observed in the market - and so on and so on.
So officials are keen to have sanctions-enforcement folk from the United Nations involved, to gain more legitimacy.
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And I think our generation has so much time by themselves at a computer that folk music is something that feels a little more organic or tangible.
This makes some folk wonder if the firm has enough resources to launch on so many fronts in so little time, and if it might have to divert resources from other products, such as Zyprexa, its blockbuster drug for schizophrenia, thus leaving them more vulnerable to competition.
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So there are restaurants and a captive audience for this folk music from northern Mexico.
The group kicked off a change in radio programming, as so-called alternative stations have put them and other folk bands into rotation next to hard-rock acts.
So how do we help this next generation of fine young folk achieve and leverage their talent, energy and creativity?
The defenders of that maneuver argue that if Bear Stearns had failed it would have created a lot of collateral damage, so much collateral damage, that you and I, normal folk who don't know anything about high-falutin' financial instruments like "collateralized debt obligations" would have been engulfed as well.
So why was the media so obsessed when, as many pundits, politicians, and regular folk have noted, there are more important things happening in the world.
Benanti: I always felt schizophrenic as a kid because I loved musicals so much but then I also loved these rock and pop and folk artists, too.
Just as the German Jews of New York feared the influx of their co-religionists from eastern Europe, so established blacks felt their status was threatened by the arrival of unsophisticated rural folk with slow syrupy accents.
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