Word: eightfold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...took off faster than any other personal computer since the launch of IBM's PC in 1981. Apple so far has sold more than 275,000 Macintoshes. The company, the symbol of U.S. entrepreneurial innovation, saw profits in the first quarter of fiscal 1985 zoom to $46.1 million, an eightfold gain from the same period in 1984. Yet Macintosh (basic price: $2,195) and its maker have a serious handicap. Many Macintosh buyers have been Apple's characteristic flannel-shirt clientele--students, hackers and do-it-yourselfers--who make up only one-third of the $38 billion personalcomputer market...
...going public, Vuitton will be cashing in on a remarkable boom. Sales of its luggage and handbags have surged more than eightfold since 1977, when Henry Racamier, a retired steelmaker whose wife is a member of the Vuitton family, took over as president. At the time, Vuitton had only one factory. Racamier added six more and opened more than 50 new stores in cities ranging from Singapore to Short Hills, N. J. As a result of the exuberant expansion, two-thirds of Vuitton's business now comes from high-fashion bag toters outside France...
...fast becoming a cashless society, it is actually awash in a glut of paper money. In 1980 there was some $600 in cash in the economy for every person in the country, compared with just $162 in 1960. The number of $100 bills increased more than eightfold during that period, and the $100 bill has now replaced the $20 as the denomination with the highest total value in circulation...
...cursory reading of recent issues of "Update," the K-School newsletter, reveals the rapidity with which the fledgling institution is growing. Three years after planting roots on the corner of Boylston and Memorial Drive, the school has boosted the size of its student body eightfold. A government executive training program sprouted last fall, and has since been nurtured by a $600,000 federal grant. Currently, officials are preparing for the transplant of an urban planing program from the Graduate School of Design (GSD). And the school's increasing number of research centers have yielded several studies that received nationwide attention...
...Project. Traveling almost constantly, from big city ghetto to impoverished hamlet, he urged blacks to set aside their fears of white retaliation and register to vote. By 1968 the South had nearly 2 million new black voters, the number of black elected officials in the region had jumped almost eightfold, to 564, and Vernon Jordan was a nationally known civil rights leader...