As you can clearly see scenarios with tripling and certainly very near to quadrupling are considered.
Prices were rising already, with scrap metal nearly quadrupling between 1972 and 1974 and lumber nearly doubling.
At the time the quadrupling of oil prices was making Brazil's high levels of agricultural subsidy unaffordable.
With storage density quadrupling every presidential election cycle, customers can no longer justify making hardware investments that quickly become obsolete.
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If price were to decline, political power sustained by the quadrupling of government spending since 1999 may not be sustainable.
But the bigger danger may come from doubling or quadrupling a common risk, such as that for a heart attack.
Steve Case of AOL talks about the challenge of quadrupling the number of online users during the next five years.
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Outperformance came only in the decade just gone, with emerging markets almost quadrupling investors' capital since the end of 2000.
The economy was booming, so wine prices skyrocketed, some quadrupling in price.
All other factors considered--recessionary year, no Napster, grinding paralysis on last-mile--a quadrupling of Net traffic can be seen as a huge upset win.
And many doubt that the quadrupling of spending on disability in the last 20 years reflects a quadrupling in the scale of disability.
Serbia adopted a new long-term economic growth plan in 2010 that calls for a quadrupling of exports over ten years and heavy investments in basic infrastructure.
In a preliminary proxy filing with the SEC, the cloud-based software company disclosed plans to ask holders to approve a quadrupling of the number of outstanding shares.
In his four years as commissioner, Larry Scott has transformed the stately, sleepy Pacific-10 Conference into the big-business Pac-12, expanding the conference and quadrupling its annual television-rights revenue.
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Within one week, she had been approached by seven headhunters and her LinkedIn profile had attracted 539 hits, quadrupling the traffic she experienced the week before the campaign.
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In 1914 the group sold the collection, quadrupling their money.
But to a large degree that growth in net worth represents the explosion in asset prices--the quadrupling of stock prices over the decade, the 50% rise in home values.
In the economic crisis that followed the quadrupling of the price of oil, the British unit sank deeply into the red while the French operation was only marginally profitable.
Chertoff said Thursday that 4, 200 trained National Guard military police would be deployed in the city over the next three days, quadrupling the law enforcement presence in New Orleans.
The fourth health warning is that presidents of both parties can be blown off course by shocks elsewhere in the global economy, such as the quadrupling of oil prices in 1973-74.
The package is expected to involve a quadrupling - from the current projected level of 440bn euros - in the firepower of Europe's main bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF).
When the first tranche of price rises hit, quadrupling the cost of some kinds of bread and shooting diesel prices up by 2, 000%, among other things, there was barely a peep from the public.
The drop in Thorntons' share price following the release of its trading results follows a more than quadrupling of its share price since the beginning of last year on rising hopes of a turnaround.
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In the six years since I have taught there, Rockwell Elementary and the surrounding community have seen tremendous growth in diversity with the ESOL population growing ten-fold and the Hispanic population more than quadrupling.
So until recently they hardly ever seriously considered or modeled the do-nothing scenario, which is a tripling (820 ppm) or quadrupling (1100 ppm) of preindustrial levels of carbon dioxide over the next hundred years or so.
Despite a near-quadrupling in the oil price since he took office (for which he can take some of the credit), Venezuela's economy contracted by 7.5% last year and is forecast to grow by less than 3% this year.
One notable performance bubbling under the top 10 was this summer's indie critical darling, Fox Searchlight's "Beasts of the Southern Wild, " which jumped from No. 21 to No. 16 after quadrupling the number of the theaters it was in.
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This has coincided with a quadrupling in top executives' pay, whereas company share prices as measured by the FTSE100 index have gone nowhere and average earnings for the rest of us have increased just a few percentage points a year.
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Perhaps one of the most representative companies of the global economies, Caterpillar posted fourth quarter earnings before the bell on Thursday, more than quadrupling profits and forecasting a better 2011 on continued demand from emerging markets and continued upward momentum in commodity prices.
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Our growth strategy also includes a series of investments and capacity expansion plans for operations across Asia, including a quadrupling of our excavating manufacturing capacity at Caterpillar Xuzhou in Xuzhou, China, where we now have 16 manufacturing facilities and nine more that are in construction.
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