That some other crimes have risen, such as mobile phone theft and internet fraud, supports the idea that a lot of criminal activity is opportunistic.
The market value of assets acquired by telecom issuers (such as fiber-optic cable and communications towers) has risen sharply, such that the issuers' credit quality has improved.
And now that the program has risen to such heights, persuading top recruits to leave Wisconsin can be nearly impossible.
One of the reasons executive pay has risen to such absurd levels is that institutional investors have been content to wave through ever sillier remuneration packages.
Chris Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT, said: "It is deeply worrying to see that the abuse of teachers has risen by such a huge margin this year.
"He has risen to such new challenges as H.I.V./AIDS and international terrorism, and brought about more efficient utilization of the U.N.'s modest resources".
It doesn't surprise me that he has risen to such a senior rank in the civil service because he is outstandingly able".
Concern the Bank of England has lost its grip on inflation has risen to such a level that markets are increasingly pricing in an interest rate rise by the summer to prevent a full-blown credibility crisis.
It is not clear how much the issue has hurt her candidacy over the last several months, but it has risen to such a fever pitch now that she is airing a television ad defending her assertions of her ancestry.
One worry is that executive pay has risen to such heights that the bad times look rather like the good times used to: the median total compensation in the Mercer survey was still $2.16m.
