Mr. Crawford said the growth resulted from a decline in the number of brokers who quit.
The company said much of its growth resulted from a 63 percent increase on marketing spending.
Years of growth resulted in spreading subdivisions and state highways that converge at vast intersections.
In addition, population growth resulted in rapidly increasing costs for local governments, which depend primarily on property taxes for revenue.
Years of export-led growth resulted in a crisis of overproduction that could only be sustained with mountains of debt.
Its early growth resulted from the nitrate boom that began in 1866 and from the Caracoles silver discovery of 1870, at which time Antofagasta's name became official.
In the previous quarter, about two-thirds of economic growth resulted from a decision by companies to draw down their inventories more slowly — that is, not clearing their stockroom shelves so quickly but still not adding to them.
Some of the growth resulted from an increase in Medicaid enrollment and a temporary increase in the federal share of Medicaid spending, authorized by the economic stimulus law of 2009.
Much of that growth resulted from an increase in the value of K.K.R.'s investments like Nielsen and the hospital operator HCA, as well as from newly raised capital.
Gains in manufacturing appeared broad, tempering the view that some of the growth resulted from a temporary rebound after Hurricane Sandy upset many lives on the East Coast in late October and early November.
Much of Silicon Valley's growth resulted from defense spending that paid for the development of computers, the semiconductor, high-performance transistors, the microprocessor, high-performance networks, the mouse and the Internet and which provided research dollars that turned Stanford University into a magnet.
