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...surge if a bill to restrain Medicaid spending on prescription drugs is passed. But that's what one lobbyist for Eli Lilly said to Minnesota state Rep. Fran Bradley's face recently. "My phone has rung off the hook with people telling me I'm going to cause a severalfold increase in suicides," said Bradley, a Republican who previously won awards from state mental-health advocates for his progressive legislation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Minnesota's Hard Medicaid Cuts | 4/28/2003 | See Source »

...market in 1993. According to the authoritative World Competitiveness Report for 1991, France has dropped to its lowest ranking since 1986 and is listed 15th, behind most other members of the European Community. Industrial growth has lagged, and the trade gap with behemoths like Germany and Japan has grown severalfold. But the world's fourth largest economy, with a gross national product of $956 billion, is far from an also-ran. Under the steady hand of President Francois Mitterrand, France now stands to become a keystone of 21st century power -- so long as the French people manage to keep their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New France | 7/22/1991 | See Source »

...Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said last week that the decision to prepare an opinion was made as a result of simultaneous but separate discussions in Mass Hall and among a group of Law School professors. He said that Harvard's interests in the case are severalfold...

Author: By H. JEFFREY Leonard, | Title: The 'Reverse Discrimination' Backlash | 2/8/1974 | See Source »

...operational. The main innovation is that each missile will be able to carry several separate nuclear warheads-as many as ten in the submarine-borne version, and three in the land-based model. Each warhead will be assigned to a different target. Thus, MIRV would increase the nuclear punch severalfold without escalating the number of delivery missiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Missileer's Thesaurus | 3/14/1969 | See Source »

...super-cable " recently developed by leading electrical engineers - Dr. Frank B. Jewett of the Western Electric Co., General John J. Carty, Bancroft Gherardi of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. The distinctive feature is a new copper alloy for the core of the cable, which increases the transmission capacity severalfold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Biggest Cable | 8/6/1923 | See Source »

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