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...this unsettled summer, with its bear market in stocks and bull market in terror warnings, every bit of bad news resonates tenfold. And while there hasn't been any real increase in the number of child abductions it certainly seems that way, with the images of Danielle Van Dam, Elizabeth Smart and Samantha Runnion on every TV screen and the nights filled with the sound of mothers weeping for their children because they...
...seems to rise with its size and momentum, a few examples will make the point. In 1982, the wealth of the thirty richest U.S. individuals and families ranged from $500 million up to $8.6 billion. By 1999, seventeen years later, the range was $7 billion to $85 billion, a tenfold increase. In 1980, the ten highest compensated U.S. executives had an average annual pay package of $3.4 million, but by 2001 that had skyrocketed to an average of $155 million - and this while the typical American household in the middle quintile barely stays ahead of inflation...
...slaughterhouse get you to entertain thoughts of vegetarianism. The death of Princess Diana also made paparazzi a dirty word for a while. The profession has recovered, but Galella thinks that the golden age of the paparazzi is behind us. In terms of sheer numbers, the breed has multiplied tenfold since Galella started in the mid-1960s. But the stars and their handlers have fought back, punishing publications that run unflattering pictures by denying them access...
...appears, is for the enactment of prohibitory gun measures. Yet historical evidence shows that gun control is a totally ineffective means of reducing crime. From 1900-1930, for example, there were relatively few changes in U.S. per capita gun ownership, but our nation’s murder rate increased tenfold. Between 1937 and 1963, however, handgun ownership increased by a whopping 250 percent, while the homicide rate actually fell by 35.7 percent...
Last March, U.S. astronauts made five of the most challenging spacewalks ever attempted in order to give the venerable Hubble Space Telescope a new lease on life. The new digital camera and solar generators they installed boosted Hubble's optical power tenfold, essentially making it a new telescope with unprecedented reach and clarity...