The median price for Nassau and Suffolk Counties, for example, rose by 9.7percentt in 1999, to $197,000.
The cost of a bag of cement has, for example, risen by nearly 40%.
Shootings, for example, rose by 17percentto to 108, according to police statistics.
Demand for diesel there, for example, rose by over 9% in the year to April.
Unsecured borrowing, through overdrafts and personal loans, for example, rose by almost £5.4bn in the year to July.
Construction employment, for example, rose by 45,000 in the three months through January, and has since fallen by 48,000.
Retail sales in the week before Christmas, for example, rose by just 2.7% the lowest increase since 2003 causing alarm in a consumption-led economy.
In the same period, the number of apartments that closed for more than $10 million, for example, rose by 318percentt, according to calculations based on public records and provided by Brown Harris Stevens, a luxury residential real estate firm.
The number of students from China in Australia, for example, rose by 47% in 2003, and those from India by 52%, although overall Australia's overseas-student numbers dropped by a tenth.
In health care, for example, rising demand is being driven by the push for computerized health records, the adoption of digital radiography, digital pathology techniques and telemedicine.
