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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...
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...
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...
...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...
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...