The wireless companies say they are trying to find a fair way to manage the swelling demand for mobile data, but consumers are feeling cheated and suspect some carriers are trying to lure them into higher-cost data plans.
Food banks, too, report swelling demand.
The real estate market is on fire, swelling demand for appliances and furniture.
Instead, thanks to swelling demand for their services, satellite firms have made their machines even bigger.
LinkedIn's improving fortunes signal the swelling demand for the Web's most promising social media start-ups.
Earlier this year, increases in the price of maize, caused by swelling demand for corn for ethanol production, led to food riots in Mexico.
While the survey showed that pessimists still outnumber optimists, confidence is improving in corporate boardrooms, thanks to swelling demand overseas for Japanese autos, electronics and other finished goods.
Together, however, the country's ten biggest airlines have managed, despite swelling demand and rising prices, to lose money in the most recent financial quarter, a state they have flirted with on and off for most of their existence.
Faced with one of the most challenging fund-raising environments anyone can remember, colleges and universities are appealing to donors to help meet the swelling demand for financial aid.
Upward of 300 million bottles of genuine Champagne are produced annually, and the industry is pressing the French government to expand the 71,000-acre Champagne region to meet the swelling demand from newly affluent markets in Eastern Europe and Asia.
The ambitious plan by the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation to link physician pay to performance ("Carrots for Doctors," by Bill Keller, column, Jan . 28 reflects a view broadly held by health care policy makers and providers: to make the transformative changes needed to meet swelling demand with dwindling resources, we must explore new care delivery and payment models.
