71.   Bush favors more funding for reading programs and teacher improvement, and wants to couple increases with fundamental changes in the role the federal government plays in education.

72.   Brown sweetened the increases with a raft of tax concessions for small businesses, and a series of tax credits for families and retirees.

73.   Bush favors more funding for reading programs and teacher improvement, and wants to couple these increases with fundamental changes in the role the federal government plays in education.

74.   But as crime soars and fear of terrorist attacks increases with the war in Chechnya dragging on, many Russians have called for executions to resume.

75.   Commercial banks matched those increases with similar quarter-point increases in their prime lending rate, the benchmark for millions of consumer and business loans.

76.   Diplomats want to keep it that way, believing ransoms and time in captivity increase with the level of press exposure.

77.   Furthermore, the earnings per share of the company are expected to increase with the assumption that the shares purchased are cancelled.

78.   Hotel and Tourist Association Chairman Charles Hawley said business leaders want to negotiate the increases with the government.

79.   However, that number was expected to increase with the polls open another four hours.

80.   Inflation is expected to increase with on-going price increases.