Word: tenfold
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...YORK: It was only Monday morning that cancer was on the run. Stock in Entremed Inc. had risen tenfold to over 80 in the first moments of trading, news anchors were breathless, and cancer patients were speed-dialing their doctors -- all on the strength of an article in the Sunday New York Times touting the "two new drugs that can eradicate any type of cancer...
SAVE YOUR BREATH Wonder why allergies seem to run in families? Think genes. Doctors have identified a specific genetic mutation that can increase a person's odds of developing allergies a whopping tenfold...
Weill knew he had really arrived last March when the stock of Travelers, which has risen in value some tenfold over the past decade, became part of the blue-chip 30-stock Dow Jones industrial average. Yet he figured he still lacked global reach. "The real growth opportunities in the financial business are going to come from the privatization of government-owned companies around the world and in emerging markets," Weill says. "Salomon gives us the platform to participate in that...
...Environmental Working Group is the town of Williamsburg, Ohio, where 10 weedkillers and other chemicals were found in a single glass. Overall, the study found that over the past year the drinking water of 4.3 million Americans in nine states contained pesticide concentrations exceeding new federal standards, sometimes tenfold. Maybe smoggy New York City's not so bad after all. At least the water's supposedly safe...
...they move in near perfect tandem with popular indexes such as the Dow Jones industrial average or the Standard & Poor's 500. And for three years running, returns on the index funds have trounced that of the average stock fund. No wonder assets in stock-index funds have increased tenfold in five years...