In essence, the policies that made possible China's vast increase in wealth over the past 30 years were determined by just one man: Deng Xiaoping.
Considering the large potential market for drugs in some areas, like the treatment of CNS disorders [1], accompanied by a vast increase in R&D funding over the last years [2], one could argue that the struggle for new drugs should be crowned with success.
And we often had, for example, financial institutions, like banks, taking on undue risk and running into real, serious problems.... "The vast increase in the size of the over-the-counter derivatives markets is the result of the market finding them a very useful vehicle.
Even with the vast increase in international communications capacity over the last few years, other bottlenecks evidently remain.
Even the vast increase in two-income households over the past 40 years has had an impact, discouraging cooking and increasing reliance on packaged foods and chain restaurants.
This understanding of immigration helped propel a vast increase in the Border Patrol's budget over the last two decades to stop immigrants on their way in.
The pharmaceutical industry has been struggling to come up with new drugs, despite a vast increase in spending on research and development over the last decade.
Over the last few years, the vast increase of cloud service offerings that are available from heterogeneous cloud vendors, has made the evaluation and selection of desired cloud services, a cumbersome task for service consumers.
The advent of high-throughput technologies over the last two decades has led to a vast increase in the number of compound and bioactivity databases [1 3].
There are many other factors that have increased costs over the last 20 years, among them the cost of building and maintaining a computer infrastructure; the costs of litigation over everything from intellectual property suits to grade disputes; and the vast increase in the number of highly paid upper-level administrators.
