Word: tenfold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sure. He is not alone. Last month two scientists at the AEC's Livermore Radiation Laboratory reported that current radiation standards may be responsible for as many as 16,000 additional cases of cancer a year in the U.S. and urged that exposures be cut tenfold. Though AEC officials rebut that finding, other federal radiation experts feel that standards should be reexamined...
...schools have made a determined effort to recruit more Negro students. They have awarded larger scholarships, given black applicants special tutoring to make up for deficiencies, and even, at times, lowered admission standards. But though schools such as Rutgers and Columbia have managed to increase their black enrollments tenfold in less than a decade, the U.S. still has only about 1,280 Negro law students, one-fourth of them at predominantly black Howard University...