Behind that stunning increase lies a revolution of sorts: As pharmacies became largely paperless, customers turned to getting their medicines in the mail, and employers became more and more interested in reining in skyrocketing drug costs.
The result has been a stunning increase in inequality, the fastest in the OECD, so that Britain now ranks 28th out of 34 countries in the income equality "league table".
They show a country in the midst of a stunning increase in inequality, with incomes at the top rising more than ten times as fast as the incomes of middle-class Americans.
In particular, there was a "stunning increase in the role of auditors (a four-fold increase in the relative frequency of detections) and of the SEC (a doubling of their importance, albeit from a very low level)".Sharpening upAlas, the economists admit they "cannot determine" what part of the post-Enron reforms has led auditors to sharpen their scrutiny of companies.
Last month figures from the Independent Schools Council revealed a stunning increase in the number of Russian pupils studying at UK private schools, up from 816 in 2007 (3.9% of all overseas pupils) to 2,150 in 2013 (8.3%).
"This 250-year period has been a pretty good run for humans — featuring, you know, steam engines, the Internet, antibiotics, skyscrapers, a stunning increase in life expectancy, home pizza delivery, water purification plants and landing a freaking Mini Cooper on Mars.
Now, for instance, the agency reports that the volume of traffic on the Internet is doubling every 100 days, a stunning increase considering that telephone traffic has traditionally risen about 5percentt a year.
(For day schools, this is largely a result of a stunning increase in affluence in many of the areas they serve. Boarding schools now market themselves to families not only across the United States, but worldwide).
The service increases, which are expected to cost about $46 million, according to the budget documents, are an attempt to relieve at least some of the overcrowding being caused by an estimated 29percentt increase in subway ridership over five years and an even more stunning increase, 47 percent, for buses over the same period.
Provisional results suggested the FN could win 25 European Parliament seats - a stunning increase on its three in 2009.
