"It's such a popular hobby that prices have skyrocketed through the years," says Mr. Crews, who lives in Marshall, Ill., and is director for publicity at the college of arts and humanities of Eastern Illinois University.
It is a reason the "Patriot" Act -- a bill with several provisions of dubious legality (to say the least) -- skyrocketed through Congress.
We concluded the week with a presentation by one of our recent graduates who in just a few years has skyrocketed through the staff ranks of a Member of Congress (who he helped get elected after a 2010 redistrict that created the new seat).
This isn't a factor of sheer size, either; BuzzFeed pieces already get many more social-media shares than do most so-called "mainstream" media sources, and yet their share counts just kept on skyrocketing all through last year.
There are also a luxury hotel, two acclaimed golf courses, tennis courts, a commuter airport and a shopping center, all of which have helped send the median home price skyrocketing 42 percent through the end of 2004.
This small Sicilian town, like Italy itself, has staggered its way through a skyrocketing migration crisis in the Mediterranean that has seen roughly 120,000 migrants rescued by Italian ships this year, almost triple last year's figure, while nearly 2,800 have died in shipwrecks or in transit, a fourfold increase.
This doesn't mean progress will stop; even in the worst case, the shockwave from fifty years of skyrocketing technnical growth will echo through all of humanity and everything we do for some decades yet.
Now he sees that it isn't about the fantasy of skyrocketing to fame and fortune through a TV show.
The day offered a tangible reminder of why the television contracts are skyrocketing into the billions and fans are streaming through the turnstiles.
