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During the past decade and a half, the amount of money poured into television advertising by the pharmaceuticals has risen approximately tenfold and anti-depressant use has exploded, Rodefer said...
While the decline of the two-parent family in Germany may worry traditionalists, it has proved a boon for a growing number of biotech companies specializing in paternity tests. "Since 1998 the number of orders has increased tenfold," boasts Kirsten Thelen, co-founder of Wiesbaden's ID Lab, which prepared 4,000 DNA fingerprints last year. Says Thelen: "The demand has existed for a long time, but now word has got around that there is an affordable way to obtain proof of parenthood...
...Diddy made cameos, as did a coterie of men in full-length furs who sipped Cristal from gold chalices. The whole thing cost $100,000, a rounding error compared with what would be spent on the album's first video. With any luck, it would all come back tenfold...
...their own snooping devices. Miniaturization technology and cheaper electronics have enabled thousands of Taiwanese to become amateur Big Brothers, surreptitiously videotaping employees, friends and total strangers without regard for privacy or propriety. Shopowners retailing tiny spy cameras (which cost between $30 and $400) say sales jumped tenfold after the Chu Mei-feng scandal. One of the hottest toys last Christmas was a Winnie the Pooh plush doll with cameras in its eye sockets...
...that grew ever bigger. Case in point: FIFA, the body that governs global football, says it got $79 million for the broadcasting rights for the 1998 World Cup. Would you like to wager a guess on the same rights for the 2002 World Cup? How about $761 million, a tenfold jump...