skyrocketed

• After an article appeared in the January 1988 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, demand for the antiaging elixir skyrocketed--nearly 1 million tubes were sold in February of 1988 alone. —  Omni: February 1994
• Streeteasy. com gave a bunch of grim stats to the Daily News: Resale prices are falling for condos (- 9. 5\%) and co-ops (- 5. 2\%), price cuts skyrocketed, and there were almost 20\% more listings last quarter. —  SFist
• Initial jobless claims have skyrocketed, although there was a seasonal drop of 100,000, and he expects them to return to about 580,000 per week. —  Albuquerque Business News - Local Albuquerque News | New Mexico Business Weekly
• As the industry has become more concentrated, those rates have skyrocketed -- rising much faster than inflation. —  Boing Boing
• But now that the costs -- economic and social -- of fossil fuels have skyrocketed, the logic of a global energy supply chain falls apart. depending on local / regional supplies of energy isn't easy. —  AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed

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