91.   The value of the bond increases as the maturity date approaches, the Salomon official said.

92.   This kind of price competition has already started curbing health care cost increases as big employers and insurance companies insist on what are effectively volume discounts.

93.   Thomas W. Payzant, the Boston superintendent of schools, praised the increase as significant and helpful.

94.   This theory is that the degree of disorder in the gardening system increases as the energy to hold the system together diminishes.

95.   To be sure, not all investors see a rate increase as a prerequisite to continued investment.

96.   Traders have greeted the increases as confirmation of the scarcity of supply.

97.   To attain passage, the Republican leaders will probably seek to attach the visa increase as a rider to a pending appropriations bill.

98.   Two years later, in a decision many say cost him re-election, President Bush accepted tax increases as part of a deficit reduction package.

99.   U.S. tobacco companies are expected to report a second straight quarter of smaller profit increases as gains in international cigarette sales slow.

100.   Vanguard executives saw the relatively small increase as a sign that investors were getting the message about the need for long-term investments in the market.