1.   It was designed to achieve economic development in a region in which demographic increase consistently outstripped economic growth.

2.   Pharmaceutical cost increases are outstripping all other health sectors and threaten to surpass total hospital expenditures in the next year or two.

3.   That increase has outstripped the increase in inmate population during that same period.

4.   The cost of higher education has been a growing topic of concern nationally as tuition increases have far outstripped inflation and average family income.

5.   The sales increase outstripped even the strong growth in the international market for trucks, the company said.