The black population grew to nearly 60 percent from 10 percent.

"In three years, fishing has grown from less than 10 percent of our market to over 25 percent."

The same survey showed that since January 1992 support for federation actually had grown - from 27 to 33 percent.

In the last 10 years, nuclear power has grown to 17 percent, from 4 percent, he said.

The number of satisfied parents grew to 82 percent five years ago from 74 percent in 1987.

In addition, the total number of newspapers with any minority employees grew, however slightly, from 55.9 percent to 56.5.

For men, they grew from 42 percent to 49 percent.

A month ago, unemployment grew from 7.5 to 7.8 percent.

The proportion of such companies has grown from 25 percent in July.

More important, the firm's share of the market grew to 17.2 percent, from 12.7 percent a year earlier.