Each year our health care premiums have increased from 5 to 20 percent.

Between 1975 and 1983, the high school graduation rate of blacks increased from 53 to 59 percent.

And what about the response to his proposal to increase the sales tax from 6 to 7 percent?

Between 1980 and 1990, according to the census, the state's ethnic Chinese population increased from 23,492 to 59,094, or 152 percent.

Between 1972 and 1975, property values increased from 20 to 50 percent.

The number of homes that sold for $2 million and more increased from 89 to 151, or 70 percent.

The number of them over 24 has increased to 67 percent, from 50 percent in 1970.

The total number of cases increased to 6,862 from 6,103, or 12.4 percent.

Freedom House's data show the share of the world's genuinely free countries increasing from 25 to 46 percent between 1975 and 2005.

In chemistry, the pass rate increased from 45 to 68 percent.