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For Tepco, volume rose about nine-fold four sessions before its Sept. 29 announcement as shares slid 11%.
Suspicious Trading in Tokyo Shares Ayai Tomisawa 2010
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Ashfield young offender institution, where there has been a nine-fold rise in the use of force in the past year.
Huge increase in use of force at privately run young offender institution 2012
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It comes with front and rear cameras—addressing an omission in the initial model—and a new Apple-designed chip that Mr. Jobs said performs standard calculations twice as fast as its predecessor and offers a nine-fold boost in graphics performance.
Apple's Showman Takes the Stage Geoffrey A. Fowler 2011
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Fangda Special Steel rose 5.1% after the firm said it expects a nine-fold rise in net profit for 2010, while Baoshan Iron & Steel was up 1.7% after the company raised prices of its steel products for March delivery.
Asia Mixed as Yen Weakens Shri Navaratnam 2011
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Nick Hardwick says the nine-fold rise in the use of force in the past year at the Serco-run Ashfield young offender institution from an average of 17 times a month to 150 times a month is "extremely high".
Huge increase in use of force at privately run young offender institution 2012
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Medicare grew nine-fold larger than was projected during its first 25 years.
What Congress Should Cut Dick Armey 2011
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The hardware improvements to the iPad 2, including a dual-core processor and a nine-fold boost in graphics capability, will likely make the device a more attractive platform for software developers, said Susan Kevorkian , an analyst with research company IDC.
With New iPad, Apple Tries to Stay Ahead of Wave of Tablet Rivals Ben Worthen 2011
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The move has seen prices rise as much as nine-fold in a few months and given new impetus to mining firms across the world that have long been seeking to develop deposits.
Chinese moves to limit mineral supplies sparks struggle over rare earths Tania Branigan in Beijing 2010
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Between 1979 and 1999, while the population doubled, the number of university graduates grew nine-fold, from a base of 430,000 to nearly four million.
Dilip Hiro: Regime Change in Tehran? Don't Bet on It -- Yet 2010
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Border Patrol's budget has seen a nine-fold increase, and the number of border patrol agents has grown by a factor of five.
Suing Arizona 2010
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