In the last quarter of 2005, personal consumption jumped sharply, growing at an annualised 3.2%.
In November Salesforce.com, the largest SaaS firm, beat analysts' expectations, reporting sharply growing revenues and profits.And open-source software has long since moved beyond Linux.
It must either end its hostility toward private businesses — or accept that a sharply growing mass of unemployed will nullify the progress of the last three years.
However, industry professionals say a large and sharply growing number of business travelers have actually dropped from the radar simply because they have slipped into the cheap-fare world of the leisure-travel market.
Growth of 6.8% may still sound pretty robust, but it implies that growth was virtually zero on a seasonally adjusted basis in the fourth quarter.Industrial production has slowed even more sharply, growing by only 5.7% in the 12 months to December, compared with an 18% pace in late 2007.
"Didn't I just tell you she was in the hospital?" But like a sharply growing number of Medicare beneficiaries, her mother's friend would soon learn that she could spend a day or three in a hospital bed, could be monitored and treated by doctors and nurses — and never be formally admitted to the hospital.
Sharply growing public interest in the collapse of the Enron Corporation has spurred widespread fear about retirement accounts but has not increased hostility to business generally or generated support for greater regulation, according to a national poll released today by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.
Research interest on Information Centric Networking (ICN) has been sharply growing.
New Yorkers in every corner of the city are voting with their sometimes very limited dollars, and their forks, illustrating a sharply growing demand for healthy, fresh food options.
PAGE B1 Stocks Climb Sharply Stocks rose sharply on growing optimism that the economy will quickly rebound.
