Word: severalfold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
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