But with the growth of discount legal clinics, which have used advertising, such spending has soared.

Then he abandoned restraints during his election campaign, and spending soared.

Over the last decade, as new and better prescription drugs have become our primary form of health care, our common spending on them has soared.

Just as spending soared, a pullback could be equally excessive.

Now Russia is rich with oil and gas and its military spending is soaring.

Total national spending on health care soared to $738 billion last year, from $290 billion in 1981.

Federal spending has soared by more than 15 percent since you took office, after adjusting for inflation.

And so budgets were busted as spending soared.

The institutes' spending on diabetes research soared as well, by 240 percent, adjusted for inflation, hitting $1.1 billion this year.

Medical spending soared from less than 6 percent of household consumption in the early 1960's to almost 17 percent today.