He was fitted with a parachute for the jump, which saw him accelerate to 80mph, but it was not deployed.
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The other new electrified vehicle, the Chevy Volt, also saw a jump in sales.
Chicago saw homicides jump to 513 in 2012, a 15% hike in a single year.
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Honda Motor also saw a jump of 19% from a year earlier, selling 3.82 million vehicles.
Northumbria Police saw arrests jump from 1, 414 to 2, 101 - a rise of 48%.
Generic drugs, cheap knockoffs that hit the market after medicines lose patent protection, saw sales jump 20%.
The fast-growing Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa (APMEA) segment saw sales jump 8.1%, well above the 4.9% estimate.
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Last year's World Series winner, the Florida Marlins, saw attendance jump 36% after winning the Fall Classic.
Horgan's two tries saw him jump to second in the league's list of all-time top try-scorers with 33 touchdowns.
When a New Orleans Judge overruled the moratorium, some energy companies saw shares jump as high as 11 percent.
Last year's World Series winner, the Anaheim Angels, hiked ticket prices 36% and saw attendance jump 33%, despite an awful 2003 season.
With the successful launch of this year's flagship GALAXY S III smartphone and robust GALAXY Note sales, the handset unit saw earnings jump by 75 percent from a year earlier.
The Bristol Ferry Boat Company said it saw a jump in the number of passengers as commuters decided to take the water to work rather than risk the icy roads and pavements.
The largest U.S. cable company, Comcast (nasdaq: CMCSA - news - people ), saw revenue jump 12.1% in its third quarter, while number three Cox Communications (nyse: COX - news - people ) posted an 11% gain.
So, a single passage of action saw Booker jump onto a skyline, drop from it to the ground (eviscerating an opponent on the way), exchange fire with a passing airship using a machine gun, leap onto another skyline and from there onto the airship to kill its crew.
All of them saw their stocks jump at least 135% over the past 12-months.
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The Labor Department's producer price index saw its biggest jump in 27 years, with prices jumping 1.2 percent in July.
While its cable networks business continued to grow at a healthy rate of 6%, the advertising business saw a significant jump.
One of its founders who chipped in an undisclosed amount in 1998 saw his ante jump a hundredfold, says Tom J.
Casket maker Hillenbrand ( HI) saw its yield jump to 8% from just over 3% after revenue growth slid below the 10% benchmark.
In its first five years the tabloid sized, colorful paper saw its readership jump to over 1 million, making it the country's fourth largest daily.
Volkswagen saw the biggest jump in sales, an increase of 35%.
Halliburton, one of the largest oil and natural gas services companies, saw its revenues jump 40% in the quarter as oil prices tumbled 15% in the same time.
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In the disaggregated report, managed-money accounts are now net long 17, 509 contracts as speculators saw a big jump in the number of gross longs added and gross shorts subtracted.
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Elections in Finland over the weekend saw a sharp jump in support for the anti-European True Finns party who landed 19% of the vote compared to the pro-European National Coalition who took 20.4%.
Ocado saw its shares jump 24.5% in the first hour of trading, after it reported a strong rise in sales over the Christmas and New Year period, on top of news about a possible technology-licensing agreement with Morrisons.
They include the millions of Indonesians who have been horrified by the rampant separatist and communal violence which has broken out across the vast archipelago, and which this week saw religious killings jump from the Moluccas to the tourist island of Lombok.
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