Word: tenfold
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...annoying ads, more power to them. But NBC has hardly solved its problem. The factors dragging down its ratings - tape delays, too many up-close-and- personals, results being reported by an increasingly fast media (online and off) - will still be there (in the case of online media, tenfold) when NBC returns to Athens in 2004. The halcyon days when results were padlocked by a benign media dictatorship are over, thankfully. NBC's real problem is believing that its ratings have nothing to do with the quality of its broadcasts. If it wants to relight its ratings torch...
...China, as well, may dull Washington's appetite for a shield. The CIA also warned the White House last week that Beijing might respond to a U.S. missile defense by increasing its strategic missile force tenfold. China now has 20 nuclear-tipped ICBMs, but the CIA worries that it might expand that force so a U.S. shield doesn't render its strategic deterrence worthless. That's a possibility that's very real, and Washington has to take it seriously. The CIA intelligence on North Korea is based as much on guesswork as on hard facts, but the agency knows that...
...says Victoria Jackson, 45, who took over her father's Nashville company, Pro Diesel, at age 21, after he died suddenly. "But I felt that I just had to see my father's dream fulfilled." Jackson grew the business from 40 to 175 employees, increased its earnings more than tenfold and eventually sold it in 1998. Today Jackson is running her own fine-jewelry design-and-distributing firm, which she launched in the spring...
...ability to meet almost any demand. Global Crossing, an international telecommunications company, is building a $2 billion fiber-optic network that will encircle and crisscross South America, connecting with existing superfast cable lines to Europe, the U.S. and Asia by 2001. The lines will improve connectivity in the region tenfold. Starting this May the Americas II cable system will connect Brazil, the Caribbean and South America's northeast corner to the U.S. A region-wide $1.5 billion Telefonica system will be operational...
...contracts are worked out with personal attorneys and don't usually have to be filed in court, so it's impossible to determine exactly how widespread they are. But veteran lawyers say the number of mid-marriage agreements has exploded in the past five years, perhaps as much as tenfold...