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Whatever marketing professors might think of that reply, it describes the strategy of the little known "no-load" mutual funds. Four years ago, there were 65 no-load funds. Now there are 160 with 1.4 million shareholder accounts, a fourfold increase. Last year, when mutual funds as a whole suffered an excess of redemptions over sales, the no-loads went on registering increases in net sales...
...Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange arrives on the scene, and the whole sticky business increases fourfold. Angry viewers write angry letters to bemused editors. Critics swoon in admiration or bellow in rage. Admittedly, A Clockwork Orange is at times a black and raw film; it has pushed violence about as far as is imaginable. But this still can't explain the sheer depth of resentment it has provoked...
Under Snyder's leadership the faculty of the School of Public Health doubled in size, with endowed professorships increasing from one to 12. The School's endowment rose fourfold to more than $24 million and the annual budget more than six times to its current level above $8 million...
...records how the good times began to go away. The theater of anger turned into the theater of cruelty. Satire declined into a kind of invective. Britain's suicide rate soared. So did crime. From 1956 to 1965, illegitimate births doubled. The money spent on gambling increased fourfold. Hard-drug usage-heroin, cocaine-multiplied ten times over. Gradually the plot of history and the quirks of society grew nastier-Suez, Profumo, the 1966 Moors murder trial. Today, Booker judges, the Great Freak-Out is over. Reality has caught up with fantasy, and the spirit of collective hangover lies upon...
...Engineering of the National Research Council glumly reported: "Contrary to widely held opinions, commercially proven technology available for control of sulfur oxides from combustion processes does not exist." If no immediate action is taken, the engineers added, the amount of sulfur in the air will increase more than fourfold by the end of the century...