Walker said the number of Iceland customers had increased, as well as the average spend.
Mr. Fishman said that renewals and for the magazine had increased as well.
He said his yield had increased as much as 50percentt since he started planting the modified cotton.
But pay-per-click advertising had become increasingly popular and competitive and that meant his costs had increased as well.
In the early 21st century the majority of Alaska's residents had been born out of state, though the Alaskan-born population had increased as well.
Mr. Ralenkotter said the average daily room rate rebounded by 10 percent in the first quarter of this year, and visitor numbers had increased as well.
But Joan Allen, whose family owns the 650-acre farm, said the competition had increased as well; this year, she counted seven other corn mazes within a 60-mile radius.
Owners of used-house lots, particularly in the Pacific Northwest, on the Gulf and East Coasts and in the Upper Midwest, said their sales had increased as much as 60 percent over the last three years.
This was a good thing: if it had increased as much as commodity prices, much of Australia's industry would have been destroyed.Since commodity prices starting dropping in mid-2011, the dollar has proved resilient.
Ms. Tyler said daily page views of the agency's Web site had increased as much as 150 percent since HomeScan was introduced and that it has been one of the most popular free downloads in the iTunes App Store.
(Chong Xie, a neural engineer at the University of Texas, e-mailed me to say that MountainSort was "by far the best spike-sorting tool we have tested," and that the speed of data analysis had increased as much as a hundredfold).
