Almost all the cases of cervical cancer are caused by infection with the human papilloma virus, or HPV, which causes normal cells to multiply out of control.

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Multiply that out to 2, 000 plus people.

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Mr. EDWARDS: Now, that's an example, and you have another example where Magic Johnson and another basketball player had a similar experience on an elevator, and when you multiply these things out over the lifespan of a person, people become pretty sensitive to that.

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But most of these gains, Mr Swensen points out, came from heavy borrowing by buy-out firms seeking to multiply their private-equity bet.

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But if we don't capitalize on the opportunity our public schools offer to manage this huge influx, if America walks away from its public schools because they're no longer full of white faces, then you can simply multiply all the problems I've laid out by a factor of five.

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When goals multiply, it becomes necessary for a leader to cut out the non-essentials and to unite other goals under a single, essentialized umbrella.

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According to the laws of nature, every species should seek to multiply and expand, but for some reason this one appeared to aspire to wipe itself out.

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