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...little part of me wanted never to return—it was the first month of school, after all, and nobody would remember if I never came back. But a larger part of me wanted to prove my editors wrong. So I applied myself, and the Crimson rewarded me tenfold...
Back at Harvard, the number of female tenured faculty has increased tenfold in the past 25 years, an accomplishment that Budson attributes to the success of pioneers such as Graham...
Like many 5-year-olds, California's Vycon corporation is going through a growth spurt. A developer of mechanical energy-storage devices (essentially batteries made of flywheels rather than chemicals), the firm is beefing up production of some of its gadgets tenfold this year to quench demand. To pay for such expansion, Vycon's executives decided to sell shares to the public. Too tiny to trade on New York City's NASDAQ, the company focused instead on another market catering to ambitious upstarts like Vycon. London's Alternative Investment Market (AIM) was a "global market for small companies," says Vycon...
...Interest in these items has grown tenfold in the past three years," says David Morsa, manager of the design store De Vera, which sells horns, glass insects and other artifacts befitting a zoologist's parlor. Tellingly, Morsa's title is curator, as if the store were a natural history museum. Some items are displayed in original condition, like the taxidermy eland that hangs behind the cash register at John Derian Co., an East Village boutique devoted to sea sponges, shells and other stylish scavengings. Other items have been given a contemporary twist, like botanical patterns reproduced in assertive contemporary colors...
There are some 20 destination clubs, with a total of 4,000 members--a number that is expected to grow tenfold in the next few years. Membership fees commonly run $150,000 to $500,000, with annual dues of $10,000 to $30,000 for 30 to 40 nights per year. Those are big numbers. But the clubs may still make sense for affluent empty nesters with the time and means to get away, especially as an alternative to buying a second home. Even with today's stiffer fees and dues, the cost of a club runs about...