Constituencies where the opposition challenger's "contact rate" vastly outstripped that of the Tory incumbent saw Conservative majorities increase.
During the early-mid 2000s, as the mining boom began, private investment regularly outstripped exports for contributions to GDP growth.
When demand outstripped supply, the council opted for a modern power station, beside a river (essential for cooling) with a rail siding for the delivery of coal.
Commuters will welcome it although the salient detail (should inflation rise above 0%) could be the definition of a freeze: the coalition used that word to describe fare rises at RPI inflation, which has still outstripped wages.
Happily, advances in technology, from fertilisers to tractors, meant that Malthus's doom-and-gloom scenario never came to pass.However, after five consecutive years in which worldwide consumption of grains such as maize (corn to Americans) and rice has outstripped production, the world's pantry is looking empty.
That means paying salaries to compete with those of skilled workers in civilian life, where wages have recently far outstripped inflation.
By celebrating Zheng's exploits this week, China's leadership was reminding the perceptive not just that the western Pacific and the Indian Ocean were once a Chinese lake, or that Chinese naval technology once far outstripped that of the West, but that both these things may one day be true again.
A recent report by Thomson Reuters Point Carbon, an information provider, found that supplies of a different emissions right under the Kyoto protocol, called an "assigned amount unit", outstripped estimated demand by over a thousand times.
When, three months ago, prices last soared so high, the explanation was clear: demand outstripped supply by some 2m barrels a day.
Poor treatment is rife: a study by the Institute of Medicine has suggested that medical error is the country's eighth-largest cause of death.For decades, American health-care spending has outstripped income growth, by an average of 2.5 percentage points a year.
And these figures do not capture the extent to which squeezed companies have been scaling back their health plans, obliging employees, for instance, to pay a higher share of treatment costs, or refusing to cover other members of employees' families.For people who must pay for their own insurance, rising costs have far outstripped increases in earnings (see chart).
