Word: tenfold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Napoleon. Reyre, a career banker who took charge of Paribas in 1948, has so far multiplied its assets tenfold, to $1 billion. A constant innovator, he was the first French banker to bring out convertible bond issues, invest in the Sahara oil boom, and create an open-end investment fund to lure small investors into the French stock market...
...fastest-growing branches of U.S. litigation is product-design liability suits against manufacturers, claiming that faultily designed products caused serious injuries or deaths. "This explosive field has grown tenfold in the last ten years-and that's on the conservative side," says Lawyer Craig Spangenberg, partner in a Cleveland firm that specializes in such cases. Spangenberg is all for it: "There's no reason why American industry can send a rocket to the moon and not design a can opener that's safe...
...final solution" scattered the remaining Jews to the U.S. and Israel. Then the film tours the ancient village of Kazimierz on the Vis tula, where Jews first settled in Poland. Though Poland gave them nothing but space-on land they could not own-the Jews returned the favor tenfold over the centuries...
...cargo ships stood to in Viet Nam's six major ports. Only 40 were being unloaded; the rest lay idly at anchor. Some 40 more are being held up in the Philippines, Okinawa and Japan until the traffic thins. With the U.S. buildup, incoming cargo has increased tenfold in half a year, to 800,000 tons last month-and 60% of it must pass through Saigon. The average wait for a ship to be unloaded is 22 days at Saigon, 31 at Cam Ranh Bay, 40 at Danang-though both Cam Ranh and Danang are rapidly being improved...
...within three years. The Common Market's Six get only 1.5% of their power from the atom, but that output will be trebled by plants now abuilding. France, the Continent's biggest investor in atomic power, intends to increase its generating capacity as much as tenfold by 1970. The Market's nuclear authority, Euratom, predicts that by 1980 the Six will be producing 280 billion kilowatt-hours of nuclear power, or 70% as much as they now get from all power sources...