That threshold dropped during the credit boom, when real estate values were climbing quickly.
Although the Hispanic population has been climbing quickly, its registration and turnout rate is still relatively low, he said.
But, among the more affluent, the rate has been climbing quickly in recent years — faster, in fact, than among the poor.
"We've asked for a response of about $1bn £618mm); so far we have around $300m £185mm) with more being pledged, so a bit less than half of what we need but it's climbing quickly all the time," he said.
The price of energy has been climbing quickly for the past year; it is up 17.8% for the 12 months ending in January, caused in large part by a steep rise in natural gas prices.
Prices for contemporary artwork from the Subcontinent have been climbing quickly in the last five years, breaking the seven-figure barrier in 2005 when a piece by Tyeb Mehta fetched $1.6 million at a Christie's auction in New York.
Production quickly fell behind, just as demand was climbing.
MacNeil was climbing the stairway of the Texas Book Depository while Oswald was quickly exiting.
He's not a guy who would say, 'Thank you, hit me again.' " Steck and Moro have blamed Mingma Tenzing's initial pique on his exhaustion and frustration after working for two days in such extreme weather and his embarrassment over the fact that they were climbing so quickly, without Sherpa help.
