Since then, however, Texas's population has surged from less than 15m to almost 27m.
Earnhardt has five races left in the newly designed playoff to catch Busch, who has surged from seventh to first.
Long-term residents say the number of restaurants has surged from 10too 200 in the past decade.
The captive population has exploded - at Xiongsen alone it has surged from 12 in 1992 to 1,300 today.
At the same time the market has surged from below $160m in 2003 to an estimated $9 billion in 2012, more than a third of the global total.
The result is that the share of after-tax income flowing to the top 1 percent has surged from 7.5 percent in 1979 to 17 percent.
Since the Coalition came to power, the average cost of a home in London has surged from £329,133 to almost half a million pounds.
Since 2005 wind capacity has surged from 250 megawatts to 3,500 megawatts, and is expected to double again by 2014.
The annual rate of growth in retail sales has surged from 13% in early 2006 to 20% in December of last year (see right-hand chart).
Now the debt owed by households in the world's second largest economy has surged from 28% of GDP to more than 40% in the past five years.
The number of Tanzanians between 14 and 25 has surged from 4.4 million in 1990 to 8.1 million in 2010, according to the World Bank.
