31.   Profit was boosted by increased food sales, a better-than expected increase in home-furnishing sales, and increased profit from financial services.

32.   Recently shares had fallen to take into account the expected Fed rate increase.

33.   Scripps had warned earlier this year that growth from its papers would slow because of expected increases in newsprint prices.

34.   Stark said that increase would not be enough to offset the expected increase in costs to patients.

35.   Steven Pratt, a senior staff ophthalmologist at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla, Calif., worries about the expected increase in those with the disease.

36.   Stock traders persisted in their hope that the Federal Reserve would moderate or even forgo an expected increase in interest rates, which would mean a boon to stocks.

37.   Stocks Slide on Rate Concerns Stocks dropped on fears about the effect of an expected increase in interest rates.

38.   Terreson warned that heating oil stockpiles, adjusted for an expected increase in demand, are below the average of the past three years.

39.   The backdrop to the expected increase in unemployment is growing consumer skepticism about the state of the economy.

40.   The company attributed the expected increase to a strong third quarter and declined to give any further details.