Word: tenfold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years, the action in the Tatras has shifted from minor-league trade in furs and sheep skin coats to deals in real estate big enough to perk the interest of lawyers, engineers and other professional types from Warsaw, Katowice and Krakow with investment cash to spare. Lured by the tenfold rise in tourism in the area since the end of World War II, and the inability of the slogging state construction agency Podhule to keep up with the demand for decent lodging and restaurant facilities, wealthy Poles have invested about $54 million in the Zakopane area-roughly as much...
...world's skis. Last year 230 Austrian firms exported about $80 million in ski equipment and clothing, more than three times sales in 1965. This year Austria's (and the world's) largest skimaker, Josef Fischer, expects to produce 700,000 pairs of skis, a tenfold increase since 1951. Its major competitors are the firms of Franz Kneissl, which makes 300,000 pairs, Anton Arnsteiner (280,000) and Alois Rohr-moser...
Stans told his Russian hosts that the trade trickle could swell tenfold by the mid-1970s to $2 billion, a figure that analysts in his own Commerce Department find a bit too heroic. There are about as many obstacles to increased trade as there are to an agreement to limit strategic arms. The Soviets dearly want American high-technology goods, like computers and machine tools. Aside from natural gas and metals, however, they have little of compelling interest to offer American customers. Russian mining officials hope to entice American firms to help them exploit some of the huge Siberian copper...
...monetary system just as we laugh at our ancestors for having used fish as money. I fail to see how the world's brilliant Finance Ministers can place such importance on gold, which in the past few decades has only doubled in supply, while world trade has increased tenfold...
...Persons. The change in the concept of Commonwealth citizenship began nearly a decade ago. Until 1962, all Commonwealth citizens had the right of unrestricted entry to Britain. At that time, however, 274,000 West Indians, 127,000 Indians and 78,000 Pakistanis were already living in Britain-a nearly tenfold increase since 1951. The public and politicians alike were growing alarmed. To restrict immigration, the Tories introduced a law in 1962 that established various classes of employment vouchers; three years later, the Labor government limited the number of immigrant vouchers to 8,500 a year. Even with these restrictions...