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  • With lung cancer diagnoses among women up six-fold in the last 30 years -- and with the disease now killing substantially more women than breast, ovarian and uterine cancers combined -- we hope and pray that women will join the fight, bringing their smarts, energy, know-how and determination to bear against this scurrilous disease that is taking such a horrific toll on them and their families.

    Rob Densen: Lung Cancer: Let's Get Ready to Rumble Rob Densen 2011

  • This includes the resurgence of U.S. liquid production in recent years (5.5 million barrels of oil per day and trending upward), as well as conventional gas production's six-fold increase over the last two decades (to approximately 32 billion standard cubic feet of gas per day in 2010, nearly equaling U.S. liquid production).

    Our Man-Made Energy Crisis Nansen G. Saleri 2011

  • SMG's revenue grew more than six-fold, to 11.3 billion yuan $202 million in 2010, since Mr. Li took the helm, according to state-run newspaper Global Times.

    Shanghai Media Group's President Exits Loretta Chao 2011

  • (We improved the tourist business six-fold, but I knew that my client was an ex-client when the president of Haiti, Paul Magloire, called me from the Bronx to say he had been overthrown by Papa Doc Duvalier.)

    Jay Weston: Yo Ho Ho & a Bottle of Rum Jay Weston 2010

  • Greater China revenue surged six-fold to about $3.8 billion during the three months ended June 25.

    Apple Closer to Offering 3G iPad 2 in China Loretta Chao 2011

  • The (left-leaning) Brookings Institution and the (conservative-leaning) American Enterprise Institute teamed up with the Breakthrough Institute to release a post climate bill energy plan that relies almost exclusively on a six-fold increase in federal investment in energy innovation.

    Christopher Mims: When a Cigar Is Just a Cigar: Psychoanalyzing the GOP's Flourishing Climate Skepticism Christopher Mims 2010

  • People know that a six-fold increase in the normal number of baby dolphins washing ashore this time of year means something isn't right.

    Rocky Kistner: Dead Baby Dolphins and Oil Wash in on the Gulf Coast Rocky Kistner 2011

  • Since the early 1990s, the food bills of the least developed countries have increased five- or six-fold due to lack of investment in the production of food crops.

    Food crises: five priorities for the G20 | Olivier De Schutter 2011

  • People know that a six-fold increase in the normal number of baby dolphins washing ashore this time of year means something isn't right.

    Rocky Kistner: Dead Baby Dolphins and Oil Wash in on the Gulf Coast Rocky Kistner 2011

  • This growth story attracted $372 million worth of investments in retail from private equity funds in 2010, a six-fold increase from the previous year, and the highest level in four years, according to VCCEdge, a financial research platform.

    When One Kind of Store is a Better Bet Shraddha Nair 2011

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