Paramount Communications' net income rose more than eightfold in the fourth fiscal quarter because of a special gain from the sale of Associates First Capital.

And since late March, its stock price has skyrocketed, rising more than eightfold.

Full-year profit rose more than eightfold, to $195.3 million from $54.6 million Full-year sales rose 4.5 percent, to $3.45 billion from $3.3 billion.

In the last 30 years, bankruptcy filings have steadily increased, rising eightfold since Congress last rewrote the bankruptcy laws.

Donna Karan International said its third-quarter profits rose more than eightfold, but the results missed Wall Street estimates.

Before its reversal, the Mexican bourse had outperformed all other stock markets, rising eightfold in local terms since January.

Buddhism is the fastest-growing religion in England's jails, with the number of followers rising eightfold over the past decade.

Bankruptcy filings rose eightfold over the last 30 years, from 200,000 in 1978 to 1.6 million last year.

The latter measure seemed to anticipate the economic agony that was to come, as electricity costs quintupled, water prices rose eightfold, and gasoline prices rose 3000%.

In Ulyanovsk, fuel prices rose eightfold, sparking protests, according to the Tass press agency.