Labour productivity has soared, but the result could be a poisonous combination of deep recession followed by jobless recovery.

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Its yields have soared due to worries it will be the next victim of a euro zone debt crisis that has already claimed Greece, Ireland and Portugal, forcing them to seek international bailouts.

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Wells is widely thought to be seeking offers from out of state, and its shares soared on news of BankAmerica's merger.

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This year Vodafone's share price has soared because of the belief that this giant mobile phone conglomerate will be broken up, in the coming months.

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All of which is a long-winded way of explaining why the borrowing costs of the government perceived to be most financially over-stretched, Spain, have soared today to record levels - in that the dispute over whether to go for a banking union shows that the eurozone is as far as ever it was from a fundamental solution to its woes.

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Estimates by the Food and Agriculture Organisation that the number of hungry people soared from 875m in 2005 to 1 billion in 2009 turned out to be wrong, and were quietly dropped.

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Every year, the number of drugs on the market that need to be monitored for safety increases--and that number has soared exponentially since the FDA was founded.

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