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...addition, Lauralee tells me that the number of women wrestlers in America has increased four-fold in the last several years. It turns out that there is an entire circuit of women's wrestling tournaments and three or four full-scale teams on the collegiate level. Hobeika recently finished first in her weight class at a Christmas tournament in New York and Summer, who paid her own way sophomore year before she got a grant from Radcliffe as a junior, has in the past finished second and third. But because they both weigh less than 118 pounds--the lowest weight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Counting to Ten | 2/10/1998 | See Source »

Unfortunate as it may be, Diana's death has become big business. Every TV network has seen around a four-fold increase in Nielsen ratings since Saturday night ? with well over a million turning to CNN alone. Post-crash pictures of the Mercedes, even though no newspaper has yet dared to publish them, are being valued at $1 million. Books are flying off the shelves: most Barnes and Noble stores were sold out of Diana biographies within hours of the accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Dares Profit from Di? | 9/4/1997 | See Source »

According to the FAO report, conservative estimates place the death toll among children under five at 567,000, with a three-fold increase in infant mortality, and a four-fold increase in cases of marasmus since the end of the war, Fawzi said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UMASS Professor Cites U.N. For Plight of Iraqi Children | 2/29/1996 | See Source »

...problems at Taft were four-fold, Glass said: Teachers did not agree with the changes, the principal tried to implement too many reforms at once; the design of the reform was flawed, containing inherently bad ideas; and the bureaucracy impeded progress...

Author: By Sarah J. Schaffer, | Title: Glass Talks on School Reform | 10/17/1995 | See Source »

Formed under the initiative of Brown PresidentVartan Gregorian, the Alliance's main goal is toraise the graduate school application pool ofminorities four-fold by the year...

Author: By Amanda C. Pustilnik, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Inter-College Group To Advise Minorities | 12/18/1992 | See Source »

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