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...Democrats in the 1980s, young McAuliffe hit the road to find new donors in law firms, mid-size businesses and real estate brokerages. His recruits were people who were reliable voters but were sometimes excluded from the established social register--Jews, Irishmen and Asians. By 1993, McAuliffe had boosted ninefold the D.N.C.'s club of business leaders who paid dues of $10,000 a year. They became the roots of McAuliffe's money tree, which keeps flourishing thanks to his continuous stream of small kindnesses. No event passes without personal thank-you notes to "my guys," as McAuliffe calls them...
...once sleepy, snobbish concern into a global retailing empire is a triumph for Dumas, 52, one of 17 cousins who control 87% of the firm. A silver-tongued swashbuckler who spent a year as an assistant buyer for Bloomingdale's in Manhattan, Dumas has boosted Hermes annual sales ninefold, to $460 million, since he took over in 1978. Moving aggressively into the U.S. and the Far East, he has opened 80 new shops, bringing the total to 238. Thirty more are planned. "Dumas is one of the brightest retailers in the world," says Stanley Marcus, chairman emeritus of the Neiman...
...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...