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Worse than any of these, however, is the ever-present danger, heightened tenfold by the fact that House teams don't practice much, of the fumble...
Progress that is almost daring by Saudi standards is being made in education. The school population has quadrupled in ten years to 100,000, and the education budget has gone up tenfold. Saud has donated at least ten of his 24 palaces for schools. At King Saud's Sons' Institute, inside the Naziriyah compound, children of slaves sit next to young princes. Risking the displeasure of the austere Wahabi sect of Islam, which believes that woman's place is in the harem and behind the veil, Tariki has put several thousand girls in school...
...season in 1960. Last fall, the Ford Foundation awarded Notre Dame something incomparably more valuable than a football championship: the honor, as one of five rapidly improving universities (none other Catholic) of receiving millions in unrestricted grants. Notre Dame's operating budget is up threefold, its science budget tenfold. Hesburgh has put up twelve new buildings, ranging from dormitories to a science center. To house an eventual 2,000,000 books, five times more than now, Hesburgh has under way a new $8,000,000 library...
...Allyn had been well trained to take over the top job. In 25 years at N.C.R., he saw sales doubled to $40 million. As boss, Allyn has multiplied them another tenfold. During the war, he took N.C.R. into defense work, but made sure he would be ready for the worldwide boom he saw ahead. With peace, Allyn hurried to Germany to check on N.C.R.'s Berlin plant. It was gone. "The Russians had rolled up our plant like a rug and hauled it behind the Iron Curtain," says Allyn...
...Speaking to audiences of thousands, as he walked from city to village to city, Bhave expressed his idea in mathematical terms, saying that the people represent 1 and the government 0. Separately, they could not achieve much, but put together they equal 10: India's achievement would be tenfold. Said Nehru: "The land problem is the main problem before us. Vinobaji says that private ownership of land must go. He is right. The land should belong to the community. But even that is not enough. The community must have the necessary organization to develop its economy." He exhorted...