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Meanwhile, according to USAT and the NYT , India ratcheted the situation with its announcement that its nuclear missile program is all but ready.
So now the numbers are getting ratcheted up, to the point where a recent Goldman, Sachs study said the market could be as large as $2.
The pope has ratcheted up its importance by decreeing that the male monopoly on priesthood is an article of faith that must be "definitively held by all the Church's faithful."
But those high levels had been eroding the economy since well before Reagan ratcheted up the arms race.
In the tradition of screenplay guru Robert McKee, the stakes in every act are ratcheted up.