11.   It was the second increase since June.

12.   It was the biggest monthly increase since last December.

13.   Likewise, business at IPSA International, an Alpharetta, Ga.-based corporate security firm, has seen business increase since the first of the year.

14.   Many of these non-discounted customers have actually gotten price increases since the breakup of Ma Bell.

15.   Partly as a consequence, the accumulation of inventories on store shelves and in warehouses during January posted its biggest increase since August.

16.   Prices registered their slowest rate of increase since April last year.

17.   Prices for goods and services posted the largest increase since May as clothing, food, energy and housing costs rose, the government said.

18.   Sales have slumped since a series of tax increases since April, which battered spending on expensive items like furniture, appliances and audio equipment.

19.   Shipments of corrugated cardboard boxes rose in March, the first monthly increase since last May.

20.   That capped a string of seven interest rate increases since early last year to restrain economic growth and inflation.