31.   --Phone fee increase.

32.   Similarly, the Port of New Orleans is leaning toward no fee increase in the next couple of years, spokesman Paul Dauphin said.

33.   Some advocates for investors, though, oppose the fee increases.

34.   Some critics of the agency say the INS has gained ground in recent months simply because the large fee increase has resulted in fewer applicants.

35.   Students could expect further fee increases if the federal government, claiming that Prop.

36.   Survey methodology aside, Ms. Stafford said that the fee increases more accurately reflected the cost of services and showed customers how to be better shoppers.

37.   The authors of the study also predicted that even though attention is now focused on checking accounts, the next wave of fee increases would be for electronic transactions.

38.   The compromise effort centered on replacing the Medicare fee increase with a provision committing Clinton to a balanced budget within seven years.

39.   The fee increase would be used to train U.S. workers for high-tech jobs.

40.   The fee increases that Consumer Action found in its survey are all levied on accounts that are not paid in full every month, on time.