21.   Benefits offered by airline programs to small businesses increase as businesses buy more air travel.

22.   British Petroleum Co. will report the profit increase as higher oil and chemical prices make for a big half throughout the industry.

23.   But Alex Martin, manager of Sibleys Shoes across the street, shrugged off the wage increase as unimportant.

24.   But in few places is the increase as marked, or caused as much by the police themselves, as in Bulgaria.

25.   But Kennedy drew the most applause, pointing to a recent congressional pay increase as evidence the Republican Congress would be hypocritical by not debating the minimum wage.

26.   But many Democrats viewed even that increase as insufficient.

27.   But some airlines had not gone along with the price increases as of late Friday, indicating that their success was far from assured.

28.   But then Bush accepted a tax increase as part of a deficit-reduction package that is still profiting America.

29.   Companies report these increases as monetary gains to earnings.

30.   Companies like Symantec Corp. and McAfee Associates Inc. are seeing big sales increases as they perfect and market their remedies.