Regional chains and online jewellery stores are also on the up.Their rise marks a shift in how and why Indians, rich and poor, buy bijoux.
Or was he more naturally one of the sophisters, economists and calculators whose rise marked, for Edmund Burke, the passing of the age of chivalry?
You know it's not been a good six months when a 1.8% rise marks you out as a star performer.
The 7.6% rise marked a turnaround from an 11-year low of 9.7 million listeners reported in the official Rajar figures for the first quarter of the year.
For the richest fifth of the population, Mr McCain brings a lower tax bill than Mr Bush did while Mr Obama plans a big rise from the Bush years.But whether that rise marks a watershed is less obvious.
Standing in the stone circle, as the shadows hugged the ground, I looked out towards the fields with their lumpy barrows, and down the chalk-strewn Avenue, where the sun will soon rise, marking the summer solstice.
Macron's rise, marked by a 21-gun salute at the Esplanade des Invalides, signaled at least a pause in the anti-globalization trend that elevated businessman Donald Trump into the U.S. presidency and led British voters to choose Brexit.
Chambers also notes the emergence of a new generation of black British artists including Chris Ofili and Yinka Shonibare, who treat issues around race and ethnicity more playfully than their immediate forebears, arguing that their rise marked a moment when audiences had lost interest in an overtly serious approach to identity politics.
Both reports argue that China's economic rise marks a fundamental shift in the distribution of power in Asia, and that China's leaders, especially under Xi Jinping, are determined to use their newfound strength to transform the Asian order in their favor.
The success of Skyfall and The Dark Knight Rises mark 2012 out as a peak year for gourmet burger movies.
