Word: fourteenfold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
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