Word: fivefold
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...questionable distinction of being the newest hot spot on the spring-break circuit. A short causeway ride off the south Texas coast, South Padre Island has attracted students from some 70 campuses this year. By the end of the month nearly 200,000 had hit the local beaches, a fivefold increase from five years...
...Guerrero as the main source of the new drug form. So far, black tar (also known as tootsie roll and Mexican mud) is most prevalent in the Western U.S., where it has produced an alarming increase in lethal overdoses. In Phoenix, authorities say, black tar has led to a fivefold increase in overdoses since...
...origins of the lean years that now plague farmers go back to the fat ones of the 1970s. While that decade brought galloping inflation and uncomfortably high unemployment, it was nonetheless a golden age for agriculture. Farm exports, which amounted to just $7 billion in 1970, increased fivefold during the decade as the world developed a taste for American products. American farmland values zoomed as well. An average acre of Iowa land sold for $417 in 1970 but was worth $2,147 at the start of the '80s. Increasingly prosperous farmers borrowed heavily to buy additional acreage and new equipment...
...registering stock for an initial public offering, makes a portable version of the PC. Sales of the 21-month-old company reached $36 million during the quarter that ended Sept. 30. Eagle Computer, which had sales of $14.2 million in the three months ending Sept. 30, a more than fivefold increase from last year, now sells nine IBM work-alikes. Boasts Eagle President Ron Mickwee: "We have more IBM-compatible products than IBM does." Columbia Data Products of Columbia, Md., has three IBM-type models. Chief Financial Officer Joseph Kelley says that his firm's strategy is simple...
...Older citizens tend to vote in greater numbers than the young, and the Census Bureau says the median age will rise from 31 to 36 by the end of the century. There will be many more very old Americans. For instance, Arizonans over 80 will increase their number almost fivefold in two decades, from 50,000 to 228,000. Nationally, the number of people 85 and older is likely to double, to 5.1 million. To accommodate this demographic shift, cities and states may adapt existing facilities to the new circumstances: Ohio, for instance, is predicted to have 624,000 fewer...