31.   Clinton administration officials have repeatedly called on the Japanese government to increase imports, while limiting export growth.

32.   Comments from Finance Ministry officials have curbed speculation the government will increase public spending to quicken the pace of economic expansion.

33.   Desperate for revenues, the government increased prices for petroleum and electricity.

34.   Despite the pledges to outsiders, Barros said, the government has increased rather than cut spending since November.

35.   Fraser, of the Labor Department, said the government was increasing its investigations into improper use of child farm workers.

36.   For the past six months the government has increased the budget deficit relentlessly, and has raised the necessary finance through ever bigger increases in the money supply.

37.   He said the government has increased spending on troubled children, appointed inspectors for residential homes, and accepted the need to compensate victims of institutional abuse.

38.   He said other sectors of the tech industry could benefit if the government dramatically increases spending on defense, particularly electronic-intelligence equipment.

39.   He said the government would increase foreign access to the GKO market in September amid concern that domestic demand for the securities is too low.

40.   Health insurers say the government should increase payments to them, or they will drop even more of the drug benefits they now provide voluntarily.