Word: hundredfold
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When differentials could become a hundredfold or even far more—and as investment banking and similar firms started actively to recruit young Rhodes Scholars who earned degrees in math, physics, and even history, English, and theology—the yawning prospective-wealth chasm became impossible for many to ignore. Even for a few of those most deeply committed to other, more public-spirited pursuits—whether in laboratories, classrooms, poor neighborhoods, charter schools, the media, or state legislatures—the lure of such rewards, especially as they are reasonably attainable for people of such high abilities...
...killed was a tourist on the way home, but a very leisurely tourist, because a whole summer season elapsed between the first and the last of the crimes.” It’s in murders like these, indiscriminate and sexual crimes against women, magnified a hundredfold and transplanted to a fictionalized Ciudad Juárez, that constitute the heart of “2666.”But “The Skating Rink” falls short—dramatically, unequivocally short—of locking eyes with that heart. In truth, it mirrors more faithfully...
...high-income world pay $3 per year - which would amount to $3 billion total - to prevent malaria in Africa because "this is an amount that is too large for Africa but truly tiny for the rich world." But you and I have already paid this amount over a hundredfold through our tax money, which has been given as relief and aid to corrupt African leaders who have salted it away. Shouldn't our governments be doing something to seize those stolen funds and then give them to the people who would benefit? How can our leaders sit by knowing...
...turbocharged. If Puritanism valued wealth and Benjamin Franklin wrote about doing well by doing good, hard-core Prosperity doctrine, still extremely popular in the hands of pastors like Atlanta megachurch minister Creflo Dollar, reads those Bible verses as a spiritual contract. God will pay back a multiple (often a hundredfold) on offerings by the congregation. "Poor people like Prosperity," says Stephen Prothero, chairman of the religion department at Boston University. "They hear it as aspirant. They hear, 'You can make it too--buy a car, get a job, get wealthy.' It can function as a form of liberation...
...believed he was not "big" on pills. Holmes also believed her friend had been possessed by the devil, something the two discussed after her 1999 illness, say sources close to the case. About this time in 2001, the sources say, Holmes was worried that the demons had returned a hundredfold...