The Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) said total sales rose year-on-year by 1.8%, despite poor weather.
Operators Highlands and Islands Airports Limited (Hial) said numbers in December rose year-on-year by 24.7% to reach more than 90, 600.
More importantly, although the service's budget rose in real terms by over 7% a year from 1998 to 2003, its real output rose by only 3.7% a year.
The number of full-time undergraduates starting their first year at university rose by 2% on the year before, to 521, 560.
Even before the current crisis, the number of securities class-action suits filed during the first half of the year rose by more than 100% over the same period for the preceding year, according to a recent report by Stanford Law School Securities Class Action Clearinghouse.
After falling steadily in the early 1990s, the numbers of Brazilians employed in farming rose last year by 6.3%, to 17.4m.
Food prices in Addis Ababa, the capital, rose last year by 27%.
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The board said demand for its exams rose this year by 15.6%, albeit to only 31, 104, with more than a third of those being taken by people in England.
The price of programming made by the cable companies rose by 16% last year, whereas the price of programmes made by the broadcasters rose by only 4%.
Focus sales rose by 91 percent year over year in September and have burgeoned by 36 percent, to nearly 187, 000 units, for the year to date.
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Conglomerate Wharf (Holdings) added 2.4% after its core profit rose by 37% on year in 2012, helped by its Hong Kong retail property, mainland property development and investment businesses.
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors' European Housing review found UK prices rose by about 10% last year, helped by a sound economy.
Imports rose by 41% year-over-year in the first quarter, with exports growing 22% by comparison.
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Vertex reports that nationally the average sales tax bite rose in just one year by a ninth.
Inside China, prices rose sharply last year, by some 70% for the concentrate that leaves the mine.
Mr Osborne scrapped the annual fuel tax escalator - a mechanism under which duty rose by 1p above inflation every year - and cut fuel duty by 1p in March's Budget.
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Its sales there rose by 23% last year to 444, 000, and its aim of selling 1m cars by 2018 looks achievable.
Not this time: although the peso fell by 70% last year, consumer prices rose by only 40%.
For all of 2012, Fiesta sold 17 percent fewer units than a year earlier, sliding to under 57, 000 sales overall (though in December they rose by more than 50 percent versus a weak year-earlier month, and ticked up by more than 20 percent last month).
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Incomes in the first half of the year rose by more than 16%.
One victim of Mr Martin's political weakness may be the former finance minister's famous fiscal discipline: federal spending last year rose by a worrying 15%.
In 2011, the percentage of Russians using bank cards rose by 11% year-on-year to 75%, and the total number of credit cards in circulation in the country reached 11 million according to Euromonitor.
Partly thanks to payments he has made to parents and a temporary increase in the number of Russians at reproductive age, the total number of children born each year rose by 50% in his first decade.
Output rose by 8.9% from a year earlier, data released by the National Bureau of Statistics over the weekend showed.
According to this measure, house prices rose by 17% in the year to the second quarter, compared with increases of 21-22% shown by the mortgage lenders.
Data for 2012 showed that prices in London rose by 8.4% last year, while prices in the North West of England fell by 3.5%.
Halifax, a bank, says that prices rose by only 3.7% in the year to April, and by 1.2% in the first four months of the year.
The company, which placed two billionaires on the 2013 Forbes Billionaires List, said yesterday its 2012 profit rose by an anemic 2.3% last year, on sales that increased by 13%.
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Beef export volumes rose by 86% last year, thanks partly to efforts to stamp out foot-and-mouth disease.
Average home prices rose by 19% last year, pushing prices to record levels in relation to both average incomes and rents.
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