1.   The remainder was to be raised by the issuing of one-year bonds which would be redeemed by smaller tax increases than originally proposed.

2.   Overall crime showed a much smaller increase than last year.

3.   And while winter bonuses in December are expected to rise overall, service companies are offering smaller increases than last year, according to media reports.

4.   All of the main categories, including health, rent, food and education, showed lower price increases than in the same month last year.

5.   But most Republicans seemed unfazed by such arguments, confident that the public was more concerned about a tax increase than about smoking.

6.   Cable news, which trades almost solely in the news of the moment, has seen a much larger, proportional increase than broadcast news.

7.   Canadian producers had greater success with price increases than U.S. mills because prices in Canada were lower, said analyst Anna Sorbo of CIBC Wood Gundy Securities Inc.

8.   Experts at the Congressional Budget Office said that Medicare coverage of drug costs would increase demand for prescription drugs, leading to larger price increases than would otherwise occur.

9.   Generating utilities should get a bigger rate increase than local utilities, Banco Votorantim SA said.

10.   Granted, interest rates were lower then, so the market knew there was more room for more increases than now.