Word: sevenfold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handsome Charlie Revson ran into some embarrassing new facial shades: Quiz Pink and Umbrage Blue. As sponsor of the rigged $64,000 Question and $64,000 Challenge-which in four years helped triple Revlon's sales to $111 million and boost its profits sevenfold to $9.7 million-Revson was the center of a controversy over what part, if any, he played in the rigging. Revson denied all, told a congressional committee: "I was flabbergasted...
This time, doubling its planned outlay to $15 billion, India is driving toward industrialization. The goals (trebling steel production, increasing aluminum output sevenfold) may seem extravagant, considering the financial means in sight (India must raise a whopping $1.6 billion in overseas aid, more than three times the $500 million the U.S. sent during the first plan); but nothing less will keep pace with the growth and hopes of India's population. Telling his followers that "it will take many five-year plans before we can bring about a Socialist society," Nehru realistically last week persuaded parliamentary hotheads to reject...
Speaking as both a political scientist and something of a Soviet expert, a sevenfold amen to your March 9 article on "Journalism and Joachim's Children." I believe that the most important truth I have learned as a political scientist, in the study of political theory, is that the very foundation of Western democracy is Christianity...
...which called both pig eaters and pig breeders "empty, godless people devoid of any respect for Israel or its values." At mass meetings in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, rabbis pronounced an adapted version of an ancient curse: "Accursed be he who raises pigs, his partners, helpers and assistants, and sevenfold curses on him who raises pigs in the Holy Land of Israel...
...college of music, an evening college of commerce. He established schools of nursing and public relations, reorganized the graduate school and the school of social work. He increased the school of medicine's budget sevenfold, stiffened the standards of the law school. He added dormitories, scores of classrooms, built a new science building, a school of theology. In 25 years, B.U.'s enrollment climbed from 9,000 to 30,000, until B.U. became the fifth largest university...