81.   In a low-inflation environment, companies like Carbide have trouble passing on price increases to their customers, who increasingly become accustomed to stable prices.

82.   In Montana, where commercial sales are deregulated, increases to some industrial customers have caused them to lay off hundreds of workers.

83.   Initially, airlines attributed their fare increases to higher landing fees at the new airport.

84.   It has pushed a minimum-wage increase to the top of the congressional agenda.

85.   It credited the increase to a rebound in property market activity.

86.   Last year, both houses of the Legislature passed a spending plan that provided large election-year increases to all sorts of constituencies.

87.   Levin ascribed much of the increase to the travails of one leading HMO, Oxford Health Plans, and to fee disputes with physicians.

88.   Madison-area Reps. Scott Klug and Mark Neumann are rebuffed by their leadership in their attempts to limit a spending increase to the Pentagon.

89.   Many analysts attribute the increase to the ready availability of alcohol combined with the sparsity of food.

90.   Mayor Vernon Sanders compared the increase to the standard cost of living raise given to other employees in the new budget.