Word: fourfold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...advanced nations are worried about the rise in oil prices, the LDCs and the world banking system have even more cause for concern. In the aftermath of the fourfold price rise of 1973, U.S. banks led the way in trying to "recycle" the dollars that flowed into the oil-producing states and were then invested in the West or parked for short periods in the major institutions of industrialized nations. Much of this money was loaned to the hard-pressed developing countries to help them pay their ever heavier oil bills. The international banking system came through that operation...
...Union would increase its nuclear warheads threefold, the U.S. by a half; the Russian capacity for area destruction would go up a half, the U.S.'s equivalent capacity by onefourth; the Soviet ability to destroy our buried missiles would increase tenfold, ours to destroy theirs would go up fourfold. Nitze rejects the notion that the Soviets want only to be equal. "To them a big-SALT II Critic Paul Nitzeger advantage is a bigger advantage," he says...
Just as the Saints once made the desert bloom through honeybee-like enterprise, so have they made their church into the biggest, richest, strongest faith ever born on U.S. soil. It has grown fourfold since World War II to 4 million members, including 1 million outside the U.S. Church income is rumored to exceed $1 billion a year, though Kimball insists it is "much less than that...
...drinking to Shinto festivals, viewing cherry blossoms or the celebrations of births and marriages. Not so today. A majority of habitual drunks are businessmen. A new survey reveals that in Japan there are more than 3 million alcoholics and problem drinkers-6% of the adult population. This is a fourfold jump since World...
...have taken the quest for new readers quite so far as the Times has in its San Diego campaign. But then, a restless quest for Lebensraum is another trait that the Times shares with Los Angeles. Since 1915, the city has expanded the size of its jurisdiction more than fourfold. How? By annexing more than 60 neighboring communities...