81.   Officials at the ABA said banks have already reacted to the increase by tightening their lending standards to reduce the number of delinquent credit card accounts.

82.   Other investors are banking on more rate increases by early next year.

83.   Population increase by itself, however welcome, cannot recreate entire cultures that were decimated by disease, dislocation, imprisonment and slaughter.

84.   Rate increases by any one of the central banks could set stocks and bonds back in at least some markets.

85.   Recent interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve have made it prohibitively expensive for automakers to continue subsidizing deeply discounted loans.

86.   Researchers are reporting that infections in a woman during labor and delivery increase by more than nine times the risk of cerebral palsy in her child.

87.   SAC has also helped to counteract the increases by establishing safety standards for members that reduce the chance of accidents.

88.   Roach had previously forecast at least one more rate increase by year-end.

89.   Senate Finance Committee Chairman William Roth, a Delaware Republican, came to the defense of the tax increase by offering a motion to waive the point of order.

90.   Sizzler International Inc. in Los Angeles saw sales increase by double-digits since it started running a Spanish-language commercial on television and radio in February.