Word: tenfold
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...year and has invaded all Northeastern states except Vermont, Maine and Rhode Island. In New York, which now leads the nation in animal-rabies cases (1,761 last year), the number of people who got shots after they thought they were exposed to the disease has risen more than tenfold, from 81 in 1989 to 1,088 last year...
...drive to immunize is a priority of Hillary Rodham Clinton's. At a conference in Pennsylvania, the First Lady chided drug firms for raising vaccine prices more than tenfold since 1981. The next day President Clinton echoed that theme, charging drugmakers with seeking "profits at the expense of our children." The companies say high prices result from product-liability suits aimed at the industry...
...CABLE COMPANIES THAT FILL OUR HOMES WITH more TV channels than we know what to do with have been threatening for years to adopt technology that could compound the problem tenfold. Now one of them is poised to actually do it. Tele-Communications Inc., which provides cable TV to 9 million U.S. households, announced plans to install equipment that could, in theory, deliver more than 500 channels by early 1994. TCI's announcement represents the first major consumer application of compressed-digital TV, which can squeeze 10 channels in the space currently occupied by only one. Not to be outdone...
...Russian President Boris Yeltsin freed prices on Jan. 2, most food except bread virtually disappeared from stores. On the city's once elegant Nevsky Prospekt, shoppers at a small grocery store stared bleakly at cans of Finnish sardines, lollipops and American M&M candies. With prices freed, costs soared tenfold against an average salary that stayed at 400 rubles a month: sausage now costs 100 to 200 rubles a kilo (2.2 lbs.), and even sour cream, a Russian staple, goes for 130 rubles a kilo. Said a city council member: "Our energy level is lower because we are not receiving...
...notion that learning should be unpolluted by the classroom -- is an eccentricity that has become a national movement. "Pick the menu. It's your meal," intones Stephen Moitozo, a home-school parent in Auburn, Me. Upwards of 500,000 U.S. children are being schooled at home, a tenfold increase in a decade. Their ranks are still swelling. In Maine alone this year, there were 1,500 parental applications to state authorities for permission to teach children at home, in contrast to four in 1981. "We have everything from Black Muslims to Jews and one woman who is a cross between...