Word: fivefold
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...basic industry argument is that in spite of a nearly fivefold rise in world oil prices since 1972, oil-company profits last year accounted for a smaller share of gross revenues than they did before OPEC began jacking up the price (4.7%, v. 6.4% in 1972). After-tax profits are admittedly huge-$14.6 billion for the industry last year. But so is the industry's cost of earning those profits. Last year's industrywide return on investment of 9.6% was not nearly as good as the automakers' 14.6% and barely better than the 9.5% earned by chemical...
...other parts of the body die within the next five years. Now the odds may soon shift sharply in favor of these cancer victims. Last week Italian doctors reported a new postoperative program of drug treatment that could increase the chances of survival from breast cancer as much as fivefold...
...shape offers the same surface to winds from any direction. Cribbing from jet aircraft, Polytechnic Institute of New York engineers are experimenting with a delta-shaped airfoil used in conjunction with standard windmill rotors. Pointing into the wind, the triangular whig amplifies the wind's power at least fivefold; the wind is focused into whirling streams that strike the rotors. Other teams at General Electric and at Connecticut's Kaman Corp., a helicopter manufacturer, are considering blades up to 100 ft. long. If these behemoths can be made strong enough to rotate without tearing apart, they could generate...
Hardest hit by the Ford program would be customers of oil-burning electric utilities. These companies are concentrated on the East Coast and in Southern California and rely almost entirely on imported oil, the price of which has gone up fivefold since October 1973. In 1974 electric bills rose 25% nationally,* and even more for customers of the oil-based plants. Some of those plants will be passing along more of the new increase to consumers than others; estimates of imminent raises range from...
India suffered more than any other nation. Its oil import costs hit $1.6 billion, up fivefold in two years, leaving it little money to import food and fertilizer, machines and medicine for its hungering millions. Pakistan's plight was almost as critical; its imports of oil and fertilizer topped $355 million. Sri Lanka's rice farmers had to pay 375% more for fertilizer; they reduced their buying so much that the rice harvest fell almost 40% below expectations...