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...extensions of the electronic network. Companies ranging from AT&T and Motorola to Time Warner and Bell South are racing to develop their own new portable-telephone systems, which will one day compete with existing cellular networks and traditional wall-jack phones. The wireless market is expected to increase sixfold in the next 10 years, as the number of portable-phone users grows from 15 million today to 90 million...
...heart failure. But more powerful new medications made doctors wonder if the old standby had outlived its usefulness. A 12-week study of 178 patients with mild to moderate heart failure has laid those fears to rest. According to the report, combining digitalis with more modern drugs decreased by sixfold a patient's odds of getting sicker...
...cosmetics companies aren't the only ones that have noticed. According to the 1990 census, the African- American population is growing at a rate more than twice as fast as that of whites. Moreover, during the past two decades, the aggregate annual income of blacks has grown nearly sixfold, to an estimated $270 billion. As a group, blacks are younger and tend to spend a higher percentage of their money on consumer goods than their white counterparts do. They also show a preference for top-of-the-line merchandise and a willingness to try new products...
...athletics with the 1972 Title IX Amendment, which prohibited sex discrimination in federally funded educational institutions. The act helped encourage girls to go into sports by providing college scholarships and spurring the organization of girls' athletic teams. Since 1975, the number of girls' track-and-field competitors has grown sixfold. By 1989 there were 130,000 women competing in collegiate sports throughout the U.S., in contrast...
Eighty percent of the 1.5 million lbs. of venison sold in the U.S. comes from New Zealand, but American farmers are starting to catch up. Over the past seven years, the yearly production of farm-raised deer has increased sixfold, to 30,000 lbs. Game ranchers sell another 100,000 lbs. of wild venison. Farm venison, however, appeals to more people because it tastes milder than wild deer. "Every deer farmer sells all he has," says Raleigh Buckmaster, president-elect of the North American Deer Farmers' Association. "Restaurants are calling us all the time...