11.   And with no effort to challenge those increases on an industrywide basis, he said, everyone is left wide open to further price rises.

12.   Archer is also unhappy with this proposal because he says it is tantamount to a tax increase on individual investors.

13.   Automakers built up inventories after they underestimated the impact of the tax increase on sales, economists said.

14.   Automakers, steelmakers and other companies that underestimated the impact of the tax increase on sales have seen inventories pile up since, economists said.

15.   Baker and others argue against further interest rate increases on the ground that the worst of the energy price increases are over.

16.   Banks led the increases on expectations that Banco Santander will buy a stake in Banco Comercial Antioqueno.

17.   Automakers, steelmakers and others built up inventories after they underestimated the impact of the tax increase on sales, economists said.

18.   A CAA spokesman said the airline had requested fare increases on its Heathrow routes in March, declining to say by how much.

19.   All rate hikes must pass the independent Postal Rate Commission, which is expected to approve the penny increase on first-class stamps early next year.

20.   Business, for its part, agreed to moderate price increases on goods and services.