Word: tenfold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still in control, but the capabilities of computers are increasing at a fantastic rate, while raw human intelligence is changing slowly, if at all. Computer power is growing exponentially; it has increased tenfold every eight years since 1946. Four generations of computer evolution-vacuum tubes, transistors, simple integrated circuits and today's miracle chips-followed one another in rapid succession, and the fifth generation, built out of such esoteric devices as bubble memories and Josephson junctions, will be on the market in the 1980s. In the 1990s, when the sixth generation appears, the compactness and reasoning power...
...continue, the country's oil deficit by 1985 will total a mind-stretching $550 billion. With the world monetary system already buckling under the weight of the nation's existing oil deficit, it is not hard to envision the disruptions that will follow from a more than tenfold increase in the burden during the next seven years...
...author animates dreary economics lessons with did-you-know facts. For example it was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase "survival of the fittest." The assembly line was not invented by Henry Ford but by an anonymous Frenchman who increased pin production tenfold by instituting the division of labor at his factory. Paper money is of pure Yankee lineage. When Massachusetts soldiers returned from action in the French and Indian War in 1690 they were paid not in coin but in promissory notes that could be traded for goods. The perverse alchemy by which governments turned gold...
...east in Surrey, a mother and her four children were nearly burned to death when flames from a roadside grass fire engulfed their car. "Wales is a tinderbox," says Roy Orringe, deputy fire chief for Monmouthshire County. "My boys are stretched to the limit. Our calls have increased tenfold, and some work 72 hours without a break...
...subscriptions, the only remaining hope for HPR self-sufficiency, the outlook is dim. Despite the tenfold increase in subscriptions, Saylor estimates that for complete independence a subscription increase of over 3000 would be needed. To achieve such an increase, according to Saylor, would involve a mass mailing of over 100,000, the costs of which would be twice the Review's annual budget. After more than 75 years existence, The New Republic has a subscription list of less than 25,000; despite and extensive campaign to increase the list of subscribers, success has been minimal. The New Republic's inability...