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According to the FAO report, conservative estimates place the death toll among children under five at 567,000, with a three-fold increase in infant mortality, and a four-fold increase in cases of marasmus since the end of the war, Fawzi said...
Their hope was three-fold: to give children there the opportunity to play soccer and to have a safe sport area which would help bind the community together; to give a precious new possession to a run-down area; and to lift people's spirits and their pride in the community. They were slapped in the face...
Although the council would not have been able to enforce the resolution had it passed, the councillors say their intent was three-fold: to preserve the integrity of government, to alleviate tensions within the council and--above all--to tell Walsh that he lacks the confidence of four colleagues...
...partisan group fights for a cause that really speaks to our hearts: the economic future of our generation. It speaks to the hearts of many other Harvard students as well, for since the start of the semester we have gained 100 members and are still growing. Our mission is three-fold: first, to educate our generation about what the debt means to our future; second, to organize the young politically around the issue of generational equity; and third, to help make the debt a big political issure for the 79 million...
...responsible for the higher number of matriculating Black students remains unclear. The fact remains: Harvard admitted 214 Blacks, the highest-ever number in a given year, but these offers were accepted by only a slightly above-average number of students. The problems, according to students and admissions counselors, are three-fold...