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...basis to officers concerned with terrorism or other particularly dangerous cases in 1972; since 1980 their guns have been drawn approximately 300 times, with 52 shots fired in twelve incidents. Meanwhile, the number of firearms issued to police officers each year has grown to more than 6,000, a sevenfold increase over the past ten years. Guidelines governing police firearms stipulate that they are to be used only as "a means of defense...
...prompted not only by the desire to change faces at the top, but by the feeling that political institutions have not kept pace with Greece's transformation, in one generation, from a rural to an urban society. Since 1965, the country's per capita income has increased sevenfold; the number of automobiles has risen from 104,257 to more than 850,000; and infant mortality has dropped from 34 deaths per 1,000 live births in 1965 to only 19, compared with West Germany...
...past decade, American women have taken one big military step after another. In 1972, for the first time, they were made Navy pilots. Four years later, they were allowed to enroll at the service academies. Meantime, so many volunteered that the percentage of women in the military increased sevenfold and is expected to reach 12% by 1985. But when Congress revived draft registration a year ago, it excluded women. Last week, in the most eagerly awaited decision of the term, the Supreme Court upheld, 6 to 3, the registration plan as constitutional...
...dependence of Bates' student body on G.S.L. funds has grown more than sevenfold in the past decade. College officials say this growth is due to the increasing cost of education (tuition and board have more than doubled in ten years, but that is no greater than the inflation rate for the same period) and the shrinking disposable income of the American family. During this period, colleges have tried to accept students without regard to their ability to pay. Thus Bates' own scholarship fund, from private donations, has also increased, from $254,000 in 1970 to $ 1.4 million this...
...Sunday Times ran out of patience. In a series of articles entitled "Our Thalidomide Children: A Cause for National Shame," the Sunday Times made it clear that Distillers had been miserly with the Thalidomide victims. The stories provoked public outrage and pressured Distillers to raise its original settlement offer sevenfold, from an average of about $25,000 per child to $175,000. The articles were clearly in contempt of court. But the Sunday Times managed to avoid fines and jail terms by striking a deal: it agreed to show its final-and most damning-article to the government before publishing...