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...rationale for codifying Harvard's trademarkpolicy, said Fineberg, was threefold...
HEAVY MAMAS Pregnant women who are overweight before pregnancy face a threefold increased risk of having a stillborn baby. It's thought that Mom's high lipid levels may somehow impair the placenta's ability to function...
...Motor Carrier Act of 1980 defined the industry's road to deregulation. Since then, the number of truckload haulers such as Bell has multiplied about threefold, to nearly 60,000. The act also unleashed such new rivals as United Parcel Service to take away customers from the complacent. "If you look at the list of the 100 biggest companies in the business in 1979 before deregulation, today there are only nine or 10 left," says Thomas J. Donohue, president and CEO of the American Trucking Association...
...accomplished a great deal. About 4 million Americans suffer from the degenerative brain disorder, and caring for them costs some $100 billion a year. Before the middle of the next century, the aging of the baby-boom generation is expected to swell the number of Alzheimer's sufferers nearly threefold. Measures that delay the onset of symptoms in these patients by just five years could cut the associated health-care costs as much...
...franchise (Kirby Puckett with the Minnesota Twins, Cal Ripken with the Orioles) has doubled in the past two years, from $3 million to $6 million a season. Up until now, most owners have managed to keep ahead of their exploding payrolls thanks to ever rising franchise values, a threefold leap in marketing revenues, a 25% jump in ball-park attendance since 1983, and most of all, the golden-goose $1.1 billion national-television deal that baseball signed with...