And he attributed at least some of the rise to escalating real estate investments by residents of Chinese and Korean descent, who together make up half of Flushing's population.
At the same time, manufacturers' costs have risen, with escalating fuel prices and increases in raw materials, and those costs are often reflected in higher consumer prices for brand-name products.
The protests began in August over fuel and food price rises but escalated in September after the army broke up a demonstration in Pakokku by shooting dead one monk and lashing others to electricity poles and beating them with rifle butts.
The issue is of crucial importance to developing countries facing the triple threat of rising demand, escalating costs and human resource shortages in public health care systems.
Tensions over resources between host communities and refugees are on the rise and could escalate, as could ethnic skirmishes between South Sudanese refugees that mirror the conflict at home.
If, on the other hand, its ultimate goal was timed with the Baghdad attacks in order to escalate rising Shiite-Sunni tensions in the region, all bets are off as to what happens next.
Health insurance, by its very existence, helps to escalate rising medical care costs; for example, insured medical losses tend to run higher than noninsured losses because physicians often charge according to "ability to pay," and insurance increases this ability.
Analysis shows an escalating rise in pumping power as Re increases above 100 and Da decreases below10− 5.
At first, the "ppt" (price-per-tooth) my kids received was only a quarter, but they soon decided that for each baby tooth they lost, the ppt should rise on an escalating scale.
Don't over-pitch them at the outset; you need to escalate throughout ("rising action") without falling into repetitive, wearying, melodramatic action.
