1.   The government sought to offset the immediate effects of the price increases by a special bonus to public sector employees, equivalent to their July salary.

2.   It now urged immediate action to bring about a price increase by abandoning the production ceiling increases programmed for the rest of that year.

3.   It shows the fall in average costs as numbers increase by one additional individual.

4.   Temperatures in Western Siberia can be expected to increase by between one and two degrees centigrade in the near future, according to the Russian Academy of Sciences.

5.   Analysts said the slowdown in consumer price inflation reduces the chance of another interest rate increase by the Bundesbank this year.

6.   An executive of a large, private insurer said the increases by Allstate and Safeco leave a bad impression.

7.   And besides, the administration seems inclined to ease the sting of any tax increase by spending the proceeds on social investment or a middle-class tax cut.

8.   An increase by the U.S. would probably force governments around the globe to raise rates, traders said.

9.   An increase by the U.S. would probably force governments around the globe to up rates, traders said.

10.   And if economic growth worldwide slows, it would reduce the likelihood of rate increases by the U.S. Federal Reserve.