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Leading Housing Organizer Bill Marchotte identified EZF's goals as fivefold: decent affordable housing, living wage jobs, good healthcare, good education and equal justice...
...Until now interferon--injected three times a week--was the only treatment. But studies show that adding the antiviral pill ribavirin can more than double the odds of eradicating the liver disease. And for those who suffer a relapse, the combo increases the chances for a successful treatment fivefold...
...nearly 100 years," says Randy Heiple, vice president of advertising production for catalog giant Spiegel Inc., which ventured online in 1995 and has been ravenously growing ever since. Today the Net accounts for less than 5% of the Spiegel catalog's overall sales, but that share has grown fivefold or more in each of the past three years; sales and circulation of Spiegel's catalogs, meanwhile, have plunged...
...rate of CHOLERA in the U.S. has shot up fivefold since the 1980s as more Americans travel to the developing world and eat high-risk foods like raw seafood and unpeeled fruit...
...only has TWA survived, but the carrier once piloted by mogul Howard Hughes and later by corporate raider Carl Icahn has been enjoying a financial turnaround. Just hours before Flight 800 went down, TWA reported a $25.3 million profit for the second quarter, a fivefold gain over the same period a year ago. And with passenger traffic growing, and its $300 million cash stockpile rising, TWA has been planning to add as many as 40 Boeing 757s and 15 McDonnell Douglas MD80s to modernize the U.S. industry's oldest fleet (average age: nearly 20 years). The airline canceled a party...