Word: threefold
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...with the rising incidence of home birthing, but there are conflicting data on this. A study published in 2005 in the British Medical Journal found that home birthing had a similar mortality rate to that of low-risk hospital births; other studies have suggested a two- or threefold increase in the incidence of neonatal death...
...phase of sleep. A group from Harvard estimated this risk and evaluated that on average, the extra risk of having a myocardial infarction, or heart attack, between 6 a.m. and noon is about 40%. But if you calculate only the first three hours after waking, this relative risk is threefold...
...essence of McCain's argument tonight, and going forward, is threefold. First, he is trying to throw off the charge made by Obama and Democrats that a vote for McCain is a vote for a third Bush term. "Why does Senator Obama believe it's so important to repeat that idea over and over again?" McCain said. "Because he knows it's very difficult to get Americans to believe something they know is false...[T]he American people didn't get to know me yesterday, as they are getting to know Senator Obama. They know I have a long record...
...Autism RiddleMore than any other issue, the question of autism has fueled the battle over vaccines. Since the 1980s, the number of vaccinations children receive has doubled, and in that same time, autism diagnoses have soared threefold. In 1998, British gastroenterologist Dr. Andrew Wakefield of London's Royal Free Hospital published a paper in the journal the Lancet in which he reported on a dozen young patients who were suffering from both autism-like developmental disorders and intestinal symptoms that included inflammation, pain and bloating. Eight of the kids began exhibiting signs of autism days after receiving the MMR vaccine...
...housing market that is seeping value. Fallout from last year's subprime meltdown or rising interest rates have dented property sectors from Las Vegas to Valencia, Warsaw to Sydney. By February, house prices in 20 key U.S. cities were 12.7% lower than a year earlier. And after rising almost threefold in the decade through 2006, prices in Ireland slumped by around 7% in 2007. Similar booms have come to an end in Spain, Poland and Estonia...