He said the shipment volume of ultrabooks (PCs less than 1 inch thick) grew 18 fold in U.S. last year.

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New drilling technologies have led in recent years to a modest increase in U.S. oil production, and over the past two decades, to a six-fold increase in U.S. conventional natural gas production.

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Over the next eighteen years, the Dow went up 15-fold, and the U.S. had one of the greatest sustained booms in all its economic history.

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With dividends reinvested, U.S. stocks have increased 28, 000-fold during their lifetimes.

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McCurry said the goal of the multinational task force is two-fold: to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid by civilian relief organizations and repatriation of refugees by the U.N.

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For 80 years, Brazil looked first to the U.S. During the past decade, however, its imports from China rose 12-fold, and its exports to China jumped 18-fold.

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Then when we got it done with a better deal that has the endorsement of not only the U.S. auto companies but also of labor, the story was sort of below the fold.

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Miller, who snubbed the official U.S. ski team in 2007 and appeared on the brink of retirement, returned to the fold last year and prepared carefully for the Games.

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Along with their skyrocketing popularity, the number of children presenting to emergency departments in the U.S with injuries from these amusements has also been increasing at an alarming rate: a 15 fold increase in reported injuries from 1995-2010, according to a study published today in the Journal, Pediatrics.

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