11.   Some experts believe that with biotechnology, the productivity increases are now beginning to accelerate.

12.   Some economists argue that the government has understated the rate of productivity increase, in large measure because it has failed to gauge efficiency in the service sector accurately.

13.   That would push economic expansion beyond the productivity increases that hold inflation in check.

14.   The resulting economic growth was solid because it was driven by productivity increases, not by bubble machines.

15.   The practical benefit of these productivity increases is noninflationary economic growth.

16.   The union has not agreed that American needs those productivity increases.

17.   Weakness in the building industry was offset by productivity increases in other areas, Hartmann said.

18.   When productivity increases, businesses do not have to pay workers higher wages and do not need to raise the selling prices of their goods.

19.   Aides said a combination of productivity increases, as well as new worker training would make that happen.

20.   He notes that the slower productivity increase comes at a time when unit labor costs have risen more than expected.