During the same period, average room rates climbed 12 percent, to $109.96.

The stock market has climbed more than 37 percent so far this year.

They're down one month, up the next, before climbing more than 50 percent in a year.

Its stock has climbed 23.3 percent in the last 12 months.

Total local spending will climb 8.9 percent, to $53.66 billion.

Their base pay would climb nearly 28 percent, to $90,000 from $70,500.

By then, its stock had climbed more than 40 percent.

Perhaps most important, contributions climbed more than 20 percent from 1998 to 2001.

The average price of a home was up as well, climbing 5.7 percent, to $141,200.

The shares have climbed 14 percent in the last month.