Word: ninefold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...steel producers as Brazil, Mexico and South Korea are leaping into the void. In the first nine months of 1983, Brazil's exports increased by 82% over last year's and South Korea's rose by 46%. Mexico's steel sales in the U.S. rose ninefold, from 47,000 tons during the first nine months of last year to 428,000 tons over a comparable time...
...almost beyond politics. Though the war cost thousands of lives, it united the nation in a cause that seemed more just than any cause has seemed since then. In ways that were only half understood at the time, the war completed the New Deal. Government spending multiplied more than ninefold and ended unemployment as the WPA never had. It was wartime mobilization that rebuilt cities and industries, spurred black migration out of the rural South and created a gargantuan Government far beyond the dreams of the New Dealers...
Finance officials blame energy prices for drastically increasing University costs in recent years. From 1979-80 to 1980-81, the Faculty's energy budget jumped an astronomical 52.6 per cent; and the energy budget increased ninefold during the '70s--from $3 million in 1970 to $27 million last year. In an attempt to cut down on these costs, the Faculty last summer commissioned an investigation team to examine energy consumption in a number of its buildings. As a result, officials say, energy consumption may be halved over the next five years...