1.   The slope increases as you go up the curve.

2.   Analysts said the overall income rise failed to push down the poverty rate because the increase went to those highest on the income ladder.

3.   Caldera said the increase would go into effect once a new public transportation subsidy was readied and register of potential participants completed.

4.   For the people with individual coverage, however, the vaguaries of politics seemed secondary to the relief that the huge increases would not go through.

5.   He said the increases are going to pay for higher programming costs.

6.   If the full liability rate increase goes into effect, drivers of sport utility vehicles and pickups will be paying substantially larger total insurance bills.

7.   In a few markets even higher increases have gone into effect, she said.

8.   In reply, the Texas pilots point out that any rate increase must already go through their local commissioners in a public meeting.

9.   Initially, those increases went to compensate states for the expenses they incurred while treating people with smoking-related illnesses.

10.   It does not include any automatic hikes after the second increase goes into effect.