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...pronounced Laur-en) has tailored a thriving conglomerate as well. Rarely if ever has a clothing designer established a product range so wide, a retailing network so extensive, a marketing image so well defined. That company, Polo/Ralph Lauren, expects total retail sales to hit $1.3 billion this year, a fourfold jump since 1981. If Lauren's company were publicly held, its retail revenues would place it 257th in this year's FORTUNE 500 listings. The designer's personal wealth is estimated to be $300 million, plus whatever he keeps after taxes this year on his projected 1986 profits of about...
...they regard as a moral breakdown in American society," asserts Sociologist Phillip Hammond of the University of California at Santa Barbara. Conservative Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Mormons, Orthodox Jews and many secularists are understandably concerned about such developments as the more than 16 million abortions performed since 1973, the fourfold increase since 1970 in children raised by unwed mothers, the rise in drug use, the emergence of gay liberation and the glamorization of ! promiscuity...
Along with the structural growth, the CFIA had expanded the amount and range of its research between 1980 and 1982, income from research grants jumped almost fourfold--aided by a new endowed chair in international economics, a gift from the Frank Boas Foundation. Research expenditures grew by 171 percent. And all of the Center's approximately $2 million in this year's budget is--and always has been--independent of the University...
...commitment to democratic socialism, oil prices quadrupled, triggering inflation which, if it rocked the boat of industrial nations, sank the developing ones--particularly Jamaica with its total dependence on foreign oil. Simultaneously, commodity prices, the backbone of Jamaica's economy, plummeted, decreasing her purchasing power in world markets fourfold. Unemployment hovered consistently around 30 percent and crime was rampant. Efforts to build a healthy mixed economy were shelved in the struggle to keep Jamaica's economy afloat...
...rents or higher condominium prices--in. And there's no doubt that many landlords are unscrupulous enough to use arson to chase residents out. An extreme instance of such tactics was the 1979-80 string of condo conversions in already-high-rent areas, which was apparently responsible for a fourfold increase in Back Bay's arson rate, scaring off many renters who had resisted conversion...