Word: fivefold
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...thing they most wanted to avoid--a two-man race between me and Dole." By last week Forbes had climbed to 15%, according to a TIME/CNN nationwide poll of likely Republican voters, behind Dole's 40% but ahead of everyone else, and the size of his crowds had increased fivefold...
...corporations, such as Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, and drug companies like Bristol-Myers Squibb and Schering-Plough. Her investments grew quickly, says William Fay, her stockbroker for 25 years. "After World War II, stocks really took off. While $5,000 sounds like a nominal amount, it could have increased fivefold in five years," says Fay, who retired from Merrill Lynch two years ago. At Scheiber's death, her portfolio had increased more than 4,000 times. Especially profitable were 1,000 shares in Schering-Plough that she had originally bought in 1950 for $10,000; by 1994 they had grown...
Foley had something to prove to both Washingtons. In mid-October, like a great bear ending his hibernation, Foley awoke. With a fivefold fund-raising advantage over Nethercutt, the Speaker has blitzed his district with ads that are running everywhere, from prime-time TV to the most humble country weeklies. One spot declares that Nethercutt, whose previous political experience consisted of a few years as a Senate staffer and a stint as Spokane's G.O.P. chairman, is "a politician pretending he's an outsider." Other ads tackle what little record Nethercutt has on the issues, suggesting -- unfairly, he insists -- that...
...fact, though, poor Americans (who are disproportionately black) have already gotten a great deal from Clinton. The Administration's fivefold expansion in the earned-income tax credit, for example, guarantees that no family headed by a full-time worker will any longer live in poverty. But Jackson sees none of it. He hears Clinton's rhetoric and complains that "we get the caring words and the other side, the rich businessmen, get the cash...
...three years ago, California was home to 2.85 million Asian Americans, about 38% of the nation's total. Between the 1970 and 1990 censuses, their numbers in Los Angeles County alone increased fivefold. Paul Ong, a UCLA urban-planning professor and author, predicts that by the year 2020, Asians in California will number 8.5 million, accounting for about 20% of the state's population...