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...chance. To be a parent is less to be loved than to be judged--even if you haven't fired your charity nannies and disappointed Dr. Phil. You are feeding your kids wrong, teaching them wrong, putting them to bed wrong. Having had 14 kids, Suleman is judged fourteenfold...
...chickens. Last month, after sharing a dinner of grilled chicken with a TIME reporter, vice chairman John Tyson -- son of the chairman -- boasted that the growth in the company's earnings per share from 1980 to 1990 ranked No. 1 among FORTUNE 500 companies. Total profits have increased fourteenfold in the past decade...
...primarily of Moslem deserters and led by Lieutenant Ahmad Khatib, 33, who had served in the regular army for eleven years before deserting in January. Originally, his army numbered about 70 men and was confined to a lone command post in the Bekaa Valley, but it has grown nearly fourteenfold in the past two months and controls about a dozen camps...
Construction of low-rent public housing is scheduled to rise 43% this year to an alltime high of 117,000 units. More than that, HUD plans a fourteenfold increase, from 8,700 to 119,000 units, in the number of individual homes built for sale to low-and moderate-income families who will pay interest rates as low as 1% on the mortgage. The Government pays the interest in excess...
Slavonic Bill Holden. Marton, 42, is managing director of Zagreb-based Sljeme Agricultural Industrial Corp., whose sales last year topped $37 million -a fourteenfold increase in eight years. Sljeme (pronounced Slay-me) now owns four farms stocked with 20,000 head of cattle, 100,000 pigs, 2,000,000 poultry, and ponds full of trout and carp. It employs 3,500 workers and has four large factories that produce everything from semiprepared "TV dinners" to pickled pigs' feet for sale in its 60 food stores, eight restaurants and one hotel. And it makes its deliveries in its own fleet...
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