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...Fivefold. The five-day conference was the culmination of a year of preparatory meetings in various communities to plan an agenda for the aged. In Washington, the delegates split into committees to formulate recommendations on such problems as nutrition, education and transportation. In testimony to the emerging strength of the movement, a Who's Who in politics came to meet with the conferees...
Sometimes, a powerful dramatic effect is totally lost. When Lear sees that Cordelia (Annelise Gabold), his sole loving daughter, is dead, he utters the fivefold "Never" that some regard as the greatest single line in English drama. But in the film, he does not fumble at his throat and go on to say "Pray you, undo this button," thus depriving the act of tragic purgation and vertiginous descent from regal magnificence to the pitiable humanity of the commonplace...
...population density greater than that of India. And the Japanese are demonstrating that the world's most thickly inhabited nation may also become its richest. Looking ahead, Professional Prophet Herman Kahn optimistically foresees a world population that will double by 2000 but a world economy that will grow fivefold...
...economy, almost totally nationalized, has virtually ceased to function. Last spring the state-owned distribution system collapsed altogether, and Rangoon shoppers who queue up before dawn are lucky if the shelves are not totally bare a few minutes after the People's Stores open. Prices have risen fivefold since 1962, but rice exports, once the largest in the world, are down to less than a third of their precoup levels...
...tripped by various means-metallic foil on windows, ultrasonic waves, photoelectric beams-and connected by telephone wire to a central panel at police headquarters. If this gear catches many intruders, alarms wired directly to police stations may become commonplace for small businesses. Baker Industries' revenues have grown fivefold in the past five years, and management plans to expand capital spending in 1970. Unfortunately for the nation, the business of combatting crime and violence seems to get better every year...