Why Competition Is Keener But figures compiled in 1987 by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education, which represents the black colleges, put the total enrollment in such colleges at nearly 218,000.

Marketers spent $423 million in the second quarter of this year, the association reported, using figures compiled by PricewaterhouseCoopers, up 97 percent from the $214 million spent in the second quarter of 1997.

Just before Christmas US music writer Eric Harvey compiled a list of sales figures for the top 50 albums in Pitchfork's end-of-year poll, inspiring the Guardian to conduct a similar exercise (see below).

Average orders for the three months to March in the US market rose 5.4% at $2,194m compared with the figure for the three months to February, and were 46.5% higher than the figure compiled a year ago.

Comparing Figures The figures compiled by Mr. Sawyer, chairman of the Census and Population Subcommittee of the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee, were based on a comparison of the census figures and figures compiled in an October 1990 analysis of the population by Gregg Robinson, a Census Bureau demographer.

Prominent figures can compile their own greatest songs, going beyond rock 'n' roll if they wish.

New figures compiled by Oxford Economic Forecasting and the National Housing Federation prove the point: home ownership in the UK is expected to fall to 64 per cent in 2021 from a peak of 73 per cent two decades earlier.

Preliminary figures compiled by the MASS MoCA team project an ambitious 150,000 visitors a year.

A powerful figure in the House, Mr. Natcher could easily have become a major magnet for special interest money and, like most members on both sides of the aisle, compiled a huge campaign war chest.

Sales of recreational vehicles, those homes on wheels that clog the nation's highways during the summers, appear to be picking up, figures compiled by the industry's trade association show.