The poverty rate among children grew from 16 percent in 1979 to over 20 percent in 1985, which the report called "a startling increase."

The most startling increase may be in the number of "turn aways," those people shelters are unable to accommodate.

Rising benefits costs and employers' desires for flexibility have led to startling increases in temporary jobs.

But the yen's rise gave them the opportunity to increase their market share very quickly and to record startling increases in exports and economic growth.

There has been a startling increase in rape by teen-agers.

But I haven't seen any startling increases in student achievement in that period.

That was in addition to the startling increase in the numbers in the "other Hispanic" category, which rose 247 percent.

In those same families, rates of other diseases, loosely grouped together as autoimmune or allergic conditions, demonstrated a startling increase.

Encouraged by such startling increases in commerce, Latin America's leaders no longer treat regional integration as an abstract ideal.

It has resulted in a startling increase in salaries for affected players.