A worldwide surge in investment has helped to power Germany's strong first-half growth.

Another defensive surge helped put the game away in the waning minutes.

A surge in the number of troops in Iraq might have helped in 2003 or early 2004.

A late surge of buying narrowly helped the Nasdaq index to its fifth record high in five days, to 556.17, up 0.49.

A late surge helped save holiday sales from disaster.

The surge in interest rates also helped push stock prices lower.

A surge in exports has helped make this recession very different from the one in 1981-82.

A surge in final individual tax payments helped raise the April surplus to a record $72.39 billion from $49.72 billion a year earlier.

The Brazilian government had hoped earlier in the year that a surge of exports would help.

The recent surge of tourism has helped, but not enough.