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...Nizhneimeretinskaya Bukhta. The state has budgeted about $3.5 million to buy up the land. That works out to an average of $50 per 1,076 sq. ft. (100 sq m) or sotka, Russia's standard unit of land. But Sochi's successful Olympic bid has boosted Sochi land prices fivefold since last July; in April, a sotka in the area was on sale in a price range of $100,000 to $200,000. The Kovals figure they could have sold their four sotkas and the boarding house for $1.5 million, enough to move someplace else. That prospect has evaporated, while...
...trendy way for politicians and corporations to show they're serious about finding alternative sources of energy and in the process slowing global warming. The U.S. quintupled its production of ethanol--ethyl alcohol, a fuel distilled from plant matter--in the past decade, and Washington has just mandated another fivefold increase in renewable fuels over the next decade. Europe has similarly aggressive biofuel mandates and subsidies, and Brazil's filling stations no longer even offer plain gasoline. Worldwide investment in biofuels rose from $5 billion in 1995 to $38 billion in 2005 and is expected to top $100 billion...
...edge of collapse. But as campaigning goes forward for parliamentary elections now slated for February 18, many similar opportunities for further destabilization will present themselves. A new report released by the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies, a terrorism watchdog group, shows that casualties from terrorist attacks have increased fivefold in the past two years. According to the report, as many as 1,442 terrorist attacks, incidents of political violence and border clashes took place in 2007, leaving 3,448 people dead and another 5,353 injured...
USAGE In 2007 agflation hit everything from cereal and baked products (up 5.2%) to meat, poultry, fish and eggs (up 5.4%) to dairy (up 14%) to alcoholic beverages (up 3.7%). The trend may well continue, since the latest congressional energy bill calls for a fivefold increase in the use of alternative fuels in the U.S. gasoline supply...
...back at headquarters, helped her survive when GE abruptly shut her unit last year. Instead of hauling her home, the company immediately placed her atop another division in China, selling security equipment like airport baggage-screening machines. "You can get orphaned out here," she says. Instead, she raised revenue fivefold at her new unit...