Word: skyrocketing
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Activists argued that air pollution and traffic volume in the city would skyrocket if the project reached completion...
Organizations in Cambridge and neighboringcities first raised opposition to the $400 millionproject two years go, saying it would be both aneyesore and a detriment to the environment.Activists contended that air pollution and trafficvolume would skyrocket...
...many trial lawyers it represents a bonanza. More than 1,000 implant-related lawsuits have already been filed by women who claim they were disfigured or debilitated by the devices. And the revelation that manufacturers may have knowingly buried facts about the dangers is causing the numbers to skyrocket. Some attorneys have even set up toll-free numbers to handle -- and encourage -- the surge...
Third-world countries currently consume approximately 2 percent of the fossil fuels that industrialized countries use. As these countries develop in the future, fossil fuel use will skyrocket dramatically...
...current form, but that the second provision of the property tax will remain controversial. In addition to putting a ceiling on property taxes at 2.5 percent of the assessed value, the law also mandates that taxes cannot increase by more than 2.5 percent annually, regardless of whether community values skyrocket during the year...