With a constantly rising student population, "you could be a really good student and still not get in anywhere — especially in fields like medicine or engineering, where the required scores are very high," Mr. Pierce said.
How to feed a rising population, sustainably.
* World not seen coping with demands of rising population.
And in 2004, Princeton University decided to adopt a "grade deflation" policy to curb its own constantly rising GPAs by capping A-letter grades at 35percentt of the student population.
Internet usage and public expectations of digital transactions are constantly rising (according to ONS figures for the second quarter of 2012, 84% of the public have been online), although an estimated 10% of the population will never go online.
Demand for energy is constantly rising worldwide whereas most conventional sources of energy are depleting.
Constantly rising health-care charges threaten the entire federal government with bankruptcy.
Constantly rising operating pressure and temperature in turbine drivers push the material capabilities of turbine blades to the limit.
In recent years the interest for using graphics processor (GPU) in general purpose high performance computing is constantly rising.
It was a century of affluence in the West, without precedent for the masses of people, evidenced in a constantly rising standard of living and a constantly rising level of expectations.
