But from the standpoint of sustainability, ten-fold growth in Medicare would be easily manageable if we expected a ten-fold growth in aggregate inflation-adjusted worker earnings during the same period.
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However, if an investor had purchased stock in the 30 components of the Dow in 1990 that were all deploying ERP, that investor would have benefited from a 35% decline in General and Administrative costs as a percentage of revenues, a five-fold increase in revenues as automation enabled massive scale, and an almost eight-fold increase in market cap.
Since 1999, the five-fold increase in the number of dollars it takes to buy a barrel of oil has simply caught up to the five-fold increase in the number of dollars it takes to buy an ounce of gold.
For example, there was a three-fold difference in firearm-related suicide between Massachusetts and Louisiana, which has few laws limiting the use of firearms.
The US Congress approved a 20-fold increase in bio-defence funding.
The Intel microprocessor inside most of those PCs: up eight-fold (in logic gates) and five- to tenfold (in speed) since 1989.
For those who think my analogy too facile, check out the research of MIT economist Amy Finkelstein, who has shown that half of the six-fold rise in real per-capita health spending from 1950 to 1990 can be explained by the introduction of Medicare.
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With a built-in fold-away antenna, touch sensitive TV controls, superior battery life of up to 3.5 hours, it doubles as a LED digital picture frame and provides the ultimate portable TV experience to enjoy TV on the go.
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Yet just last week came news that Amazon deforestation had increased almost six-fold in just a year - an astonishing rise, and a trend large enough, if it continues, to guarantee the emissions target won't be met.
Simple economics suggests that the 40-fold increase in, er, e-commerce does not mean that Asia's struggling economies will grow by the same.
Gestational diabetes - which affects four in 100 pregnancies - was associated with a two-fold increase in the risk of autism, while bleeding in pregnancy was alleged to carry an 81% increased risk.
First launched in Littleton, CO in 1989, this approach yielded a 71 percent increase in employment with three-fold increase in sales tax revenues that exceeded any other area initiative.
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Lakwena expressed these war-rules through Alice twice a day, at seven in the morning and seven at night, as she sat in a white robe on a fold-up chair in the middle of the camp.
While the British Food Minister David Heath believes the horsemeat in Tesco's beefburgers originates from "a third-party country", figures from the Irish Department for Agriculture reveal a six-fold increase in the number of horses slaughtered at government-licensed abattoirs since the recession took hold.
Even coming close to the European targets, say government advisers, would mean a sevenfold rise in onshore wind capacity and a 46-fold rise in offshore.
The provisions put in place, which also include an eight-fold increase in the number of prisoners receiving treatment for hepatitis C, have led to falling rates of infection.
In American cities, they have risen four-fold in recent years.
Since the project began in 2003, there has been a 13-fold increase in the number of the solar power units being financed within the scheme's pilot area in southern India.
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Mr Corrigan's victory over the unions in the docks war led to a four-fold increase in productivity per worker at Patrick's freight terminals in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, the three eastern ports that handle the bulk of Australia's trade.
Lithium battery chemistry, commercialized in 1991, changes this equation with a four-fold gain in energy stored per pound.
Lead signatory Mark Darowski, a children's intensive care specialist at the LGI, said if paediatric heart surgery in Leeds did end it would mean a three-fold rise in journey times for children needing urgent treatment.
Another example occurred between 2001 and 2003, when a biological to treat anemia called Eprex (chemical name, erythropoietin), a supposedly identical version of a sibling called Epogen (which was manufactured in a different facility), caused a 30-fold increase in a severe kind of anemia.
In March, Leicester Cathedral said it saw a 20-fold increase in visitors since the remains of Richard III were found.
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In Nepal, conservationists recorded particular success story with a five-fold increase in the rhino population since the 1960s.
Just today, Life Technologies announced that it is expects to increase the speed of its smaller, cheaper DNA 10-fold in just six months, illustrating how a war between makers of DNA-sequencing gear is driving the science behind this type of research.
It would require improvements in turbine technology, cost reductions, new transmission lines and a five-fold increase in the pace of wind turbine installations.
No-till, practised more in America than in Britain, means growing crops without ploughing fields, and leads to many-fold increases in bird population and a range of other environmental benefits.
Launched in 2006, the strategy has led to a four-to-six-fold increase in the provision of sterile injecting equipment and an increase in the number of people, mainly in drug services and prisons, being tested for the infection.
In August, the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said it had seen a seven-fold increase in calls sparked by sky lanterns.
He lays it out in a blur: Even after the big market plunge, Cisco's stock is up 370-fold since its 1990 debut, up 150-fold since he joined in 1991.
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