Sewer museum officials around Europe say they're flush with visitors now thanks in part to environmental concerns.
There are now proportionately fewer attacks in the strategically important Gulf of Aden, thanks in part to escorted convoys and to a transit corridor set up in 2009.
And millions of Brazilians have left poverty and begun to consume more, thanks in part to an expansion of bank credit.
The good news: Production of oil and gas jumped 7%, thanks in part to a 57% success rate on its exploratory drilling.
The Dow Jones industrial average saw its eighth straight day in the red Tuesday, thanks in part to a Commerce Department report that showed first decline in monthly consumer spending in 20 months.
He needed 32 shots and a career-high 27 trips to the free-throw line to get there and really should have topped 50, stunningly missing nine of the free throws thanks in part to an ailing wrist.
You do not hear it much any more because people have grown used to the general American accent, thanks in part to Humphrey Bogart and the extremely Middle American John Wayne.
U.S. iPhone sales were up 155%, thanks in part to Verizon; Greater China up 250%.
One famously grumpy'leftie' is Bob Geldof, who achieved fame thanks in part to swearing during TV coverage of Live Aid.
Tourist infrastructure sprang up quickly and the beaches gradually gained fame, thanks in part to the Miss World pageants held there from 2003 to 2005.
Canada never had the kind of bubble created by risky 'subprime' home loans that the U.S. had, thanks in part to conservative lending practices.
Compare those Numbers to start-ups in Europe, a continent that has long been characterized as risk-adverse, thanks in part to labor laws that work against start-ups.
Bookings at Shanghai's Naza Hostel and another on the popular Gulangyu Island in Xiamen are up 50 percent, thanks in part to Chinese business travelers who've downsized from mainstream hotel chains.
The most obvious change is that, thanks in part to high property prices, all three cities are shedding young people.
India's literacy rate is rising, thanks in part to a surge in cheap private schools for the poor, but it is still far behind China's.
On the road, the LFA will be able to accelerate from zero to 60 miles per hour in 3.6 seconds with a top speed of 202 mph, thanks in part to its 10 cylinder, 552-horsepower engine.
Educated in Britain, he set up a real-estate business that has taken off, thanks in part to the 2008 Olympic Games that have fueled a housing boom in China's capital.
American inflation slowed in August, thanks in part to smaller increases in the cost of energy and transport.
Most Brazilian cars can run on a mixture of ethanol and petrol, thanks in part to the flex-fuel engine, developed in the country.
That punishment was toned down to a fine at an appeal, thanks in part to other teams rallying round in support - but another, much more damaging, controversy soon followed.
The data underscore China's rapid economic recovery, thanks in part to a huge stimulus package.
Support for the party among working-class voters has been unreliable in recent years, she says, thanks in part to their conservative stance on social issues.
To some degree, the increases are inevitable: the college-bound population has grown, and so, too, has the number of applications students file, thanks in part to online technology.
In Italy, too, the gap between Italy's wealthy north and the lagging Mezzogiorno in the south has also narrowed over time, thanks in part to large fiscal transfers.
Adviser Harold Ickes, who for months has been urging the Clintons to focus on ground-game vulnerabilities, is also ascendant, thanks in part to his close relationship with Williams.
Three hundred million years ago, dragonflies and millipedes grew to frankly disturbing sizes - thanks in part to levels of oxygen in the atmosphere as high as 30 per cent.
With revenues plummeting and production costs on the rise thanks in part to escalating gas prices, local farmers are demanding financial aid from Paris.
German industrial conglomerate Siemens, for instance, has seen its share price triple in the past five years, thanks in part to strong sales growth in energy-saving LED lights and wind turbines.
But I'm glad to say I've survived pretty well in this predominantly English-speaking community, thanks in part to our bilingual environment.
Its main hope for growth is health care, thanks in part to its large population of retired people.
