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...gains that the union has made would warm any G.I.'s heart. In eight years, the soldiers' union has increased pay for draftees nearly ninefold (from $21 a month to $180.55), reduced service time from 24 months to 16 months and made officers more respectful of the men under them. Along the way, the union forced the Defense Ministry to abolish saluting (except on ceremonial occasions), did away with regulations regarding length of hair and beards and ended all weekend duty in barracks...
...study, did not gloss over the harmful side effects of the Pill. The increased risk of blood-clotting disorders in the 8,500,000 U.S. women who use the Pill, it noted, was 4.4 times the normal risk for women who do not, as against the seven-to ninefold risk that has been suggested by British researchers. These disorders have proved fatal to three out of every 100,000 women using the Pill. The doctors warned, once more, that the Pill should be taken only under a doctor's supervision and never by women with circulatory ailments or persistent...
...high blood cholesterol has almost three times the average risk of a heart attack. More alarming, if one man is exposed to two threefold risk factors-a heavy smoker with high blood cholesterol, for example-the two risks are not added together but multiplied, thereby giving him approximately a ninefold disadvantage...
...similar branching out, General Waterworks, which provides water, sewer service and steam heat through 89 subsidiaries in 17 states, lifted its revenues ninefold to $249 million and increased profits sevenfold to $16.7 million. Today the company also makes irrigation equipment, computer and aircraft parts, clay and concrete pipe, water heaters, industrial valves and refrigeration machinery; it produces milk products, sells insurance, answers telephones for 68,000 subscribers...
...year. Ellis worked to promote a $75 million state bond issue in 1956, a third of it going to finance 17 new buildings. His energetic lobbying helped boost operating funds from $18 million to $82 million a year. In the same period, money devoted annually to university research multiplied ninefold to nearly $20 million, and enrollment tripled to 30,000 full-time students...