But it's also a result of escalating grade inflation and the practice of passing even students with lackluster performance.
In fact, each of the Engel and Ramirez political camps now sees the other as the enemy, a result of escalating tension that reached a boil last year.
A Qatari investment fund, Delta Two, withdrew its £10.6 billion ($22 billion) bid to take control of the British supermarket chain J Sainsbury as a result of escalating borrowing costs, Delta Two said.
The Federal Housing Administration's annual report is expected to show a sharp deterioration in the agency's financial condition, including a shortfall in reserves, the result of escalating losses on the $1.1 trillion in mortgages that it insures, according to people with knowledge of the entity's operations.
To recap, widespread technical and managerial confusion and consternation is the result of escalating costs, governmental interest (more in Europe currently than in the U.S ., a growing shortage of skills compounded by retirements and, finally, the 20-year-delayed impact of the loss of IBM's strategic systems-engineering function provided when computing was first starting.
The result was a series of escalating political clashes over issues such as the independence of the judiciary and alleged "anti-Islamic" policies in the Sunni Muslim nation.
The result is often "a duet of escalating antagonism" [ 20] a consultation which various writers have described as a law court, a medieval siege or a tug of war [ 11, 21].
"Flat budgets in times of escalating costs have resulted in a near-halving of ship utilization, putting the ships at the brink of unsustainability," wrote Kathleen Ritzman, assistant director at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, California.
A1 Hanover Aides Refuse New Jobs Two aides to Donna Hanover resigned rather than be reassigned by City Hall as a result of her escalating divorce battle with Mayor Giuliani.
