Word: tenfold
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...Conventional banks look for the rich; we look for the absolutely poor. All people are entrepreneurs, but many don't have the opportunity to find that out. All I said was that poor people can handle money to improve their situation, and the effectiveness of this is being demonstrated tenfold around the world...
...fire service forced to pass around a hat before responding to an alarm.) From this year, the cerf can be accessed within three days, most of the money is to be given as grants and not loans, and the total pot, to be replenished regularly, should grow tenfold to $500 million...
...Royal Society Lord Kelvin, after whom the temperature scale is named, remarked back in 1897 that “the aeroplane is scientifically impossible”—but something invariably will. Since the Harvard class of 2006 arrived on campus four years ago, wikipedia has grown tenfold, the Facebook appeared out of nowhere, the number of blogs in the world has multiplied by what some estimate to be 100 times, and iPods have quadrupled in capacity (or, depending on how you look at it, halved in price...
...across the country have discovered the joys of wireless. The company started out in the mid-1990s with two Moscow stores and began a national push in 2004. In the two years since, the number of its cheerful yellow outlets and the size of its revenues have both increased tenfold. Last year it sold 9 million handsets. It's now a $2 billion company. By any standard, that's explosive growth. "Microsoft and Dell didn't do it that quickly," says Jan Dauman, a London-based consultant who is advising the company on how to cope with its rapid expansion...
...industry are growing 7% to 10% a year. Though exhaustive checks on CEO-level individuals can cost $10,000 or more, some companies offer basic vetting for as little as $10. HireRight of Irvine, Calif., screens 1 million rsums a year and says business has grown tenfold over the past five years: employers have grown so watchful, says David Nachman, the company's head of marketing and business development, that they now check the rsums of temporary staff and local hires in their offices overseas...