Compensation for those who lead large state university systems, too, has escalated, so that Texas and Tennessee now top $700,000.
"It is very difficult for a developer to put a product on the market below $500,000 because land values have escalated, so that to find a decent buildable lot, one has to pay close to $200,000.
If the nuclear dispute with Iran were to escalate so that, say, the straits of Hormuz were blocked and crude jumped to $100 a barrel, investor confidence would take a hit.But predicting such events is more in the realms of astrology than financial punditry.
If, on the other hand, continued suspicion was reasonable, then it would continue, and at a certain point be escalated so that human agents would be called in to decide whether a suspicious individual's identity should be determined and a FISA warrant issued.
It has to escalate so that heads of state, heads of government, will consider the social, financial, and human costs of nonaction.
LAST fall, after experiencing a dull ache in his hip for months, Frank Berger felt the pain escalating so much that he couldn't sleep.
There was merit to this logic before the Islamic State's recent gains, but now the threat is escalating so fast that waiting could have catastrophic consequences.
Still, supporters of Mr. Trump and even some longtime detractors praised him for taking action against the use of chemical weapons without escalating so much that it might draw the United States deeper into Syria's civil war or provoke a dangerous retaliation.
However, for the past couple of years, she says, one issue has escalated so dramatically that it is nearly at crisis point.
But then, a typical battle of wills with my father -- where to exit from a movie theater, if you can believe it -- escalated so much that I told him to pull over on a deserted street.
Since then, hostilities have escalated so much that Mr. Kaufman sued three more neighbors over issues varying from renting or conducting business in their homes to allowing their shrubs to impede his view.
