Word: tenfold
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Under Hesburgh, Notre Dame has put up twelve new buildings worth $12.6 million, started another $13.5 million construction program, increased faculty salaries by 90%, tripled endowment to $25 million. The school's operating budget is up threefold, its science spending tenfold. On completion, the new $8,000,000 library will house 2,000,000 books, five times more than the present library. All this is part of a ten-year (deadline: 1968) $66 million "Program for Excellence...
Governor Rockefeller, that modern-day Job. Ma'y he recover the loss of his Picassos tenfold, his wife, his son and his chances for the presidency...
Mensa has continued to retreat from the grandiose conception of 1945. But if the club has thrown overboard Berrill's dream that it might chart England's future, intellectual democracy has had its compensations. After a long period of stagnancy, membership has boomed tenfold since 1958, so that today there are 2,000 members. In the last year, a small platoon of advance guards have infiltrated this country and have already set up a flourishing chapter in New York, and are organizing a new group in the Boston area...
Worse than any of these, however, is the ever-present danger, heightened tenfold by the fact that House teams don't practice much, of the fumble...
Progress that is almost daring by Saudi standards is being made in education. The school population has quadrupled in ten years to 100,000, and the education budget has gone up tenfold. Saud has donated at least ten of his 24 palaces for schools. At King Saud's Sons' Institute, inside the Naziriyah compound, children of slaves sit next to young princes. Risking the displeasure of the austere Wahabi sect of Islam, which believes that woman's place is in the harem and behind the veil, Tariki has put several thousand girls in school...