By looking at past storms, the researchers created a formula that says damage is proportional to wind speed multiplied by itself and then taking that number and multiplying it by itself, after adjusting for inflation and factors such as population.

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And the variety of jobs that computers can do is multiplying as programmers teach them to deal with tone and linguistic ambiguity.

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Art fairs are multiplying and stealing gallery sales to the point that some dealers are shutting their store fronts in favor of the fair circuit.

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To answer your question about the value of the annual sales of granite countertops, I think taking the imported value (cost of goods sold, and not including depreciation) and multiplying it by about 3 to 3.5 will give us the most accurate number to use, and that would include the wholesaler and fabricator markups as well.

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Tensions that were managed adeptly in the past are multiplying, and the tenor of official dialogue and public discourse has become more strident.

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But after the count resumed with the arrival in Nairobi of manual tallies, the number of rejected ballots were greatly reduced, and the election commission on Thursday gave the head-scratching explanation that the computer was mistakenly multiplying the number of rejected ballots by a factor of eight.

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"Unimaginable and shameful cases of embezzlement and corruption are multiplying, " President Napolitano said on Tuesday, calling on lawmakers to pass anticorruption measures that have stalled in the Senate, the upper house of the Italian Parliament.

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