Word: doubledealing
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Politician Muñoz tells his jibaros that the island's troubles are a problem in multiplication. Since 1899, Puerto Rico's population (now 2,200,000) has more than doubled. At present rates, it will rise another 36% by 1965. The island's sugar-based economy...
In the past two years, A.A. has more than doubled its membership (from 35,000 to 75,000). It now has 2,500 groups in the U.S. and 23 foreign countries-from Canada to Australia and Japan. The onetime alcoholics feel that their disease is one which cannot be cured...
But there is one point that might bother him a little. And this is the fact that the spiral had already begun to twist into a conservative period in 1946, according to several of his own standards for determining such things; so now it has either doubled back or jumped...
Thus Look bragged that it "delivers reader traffic from cover to cover ... in every income group"; the Journal that "more women buy the Journal issue after issue." TIME advertised itself as "the one major weekly whose circulation has doubled since the beginning of World War II." But none matched one...
¶I In the last 90 days, NBC has more than doubled its TV network sponsors. ¶ Sports have dropped, in the last year, from 53% to only 27% of the schedule on three of New York's major stations. Big-league baseball, once thought to be TV'...