The rate of increase in the costs of fringe benefits for city workers is outstripping tax growth.

The children's rate of increase outstripped their closest rivals, the 65 and older set, by more than 2 to 1, the report said.

Many models of resource depletion and scarcity are Malthusian in character: the rate of energy consumption will outstrip the ability to find and produce new energy sources, and so lead to a crisis.

But there is worry now that the rate of government expansion has outstripped the state economy's ability to pay for it.

A central conclusion of Propper's detailed financial analysis is that the rate of growth of the the Kings' payroll outstripped the team's increasing revenue.

You seem to criticize the fact that under Mr. Bush's plan, the rate of growth in government spending does not outstrip inflation.

"The rate of sale is massively outstripping the success it had in the UK," says co-founder Simon Duffy.

The prime rate outstripped the Federal funds rate, reaching 20% in March 1980.

Since Christmas, the rate of new cases has far outstripped that seen two years ago, described by experts as the worst outbreak ever seen.

It's dynamic classical economics, rate of demand is outstripping rate of supply.