31.   Clinton has already indicated that in some policy areas he will be looking to use tax incentives instead of spending increases as a tool of social policy.

32.   Continental probably saw the increase as a way to make some easy money as the summer travel season starts in two months, Parsons said.

33.   Democrats on the committee defended the tax increase as part of a package that had reduced the federal budget deficit.

34.   Demographers suggest that delayed marriages and economic pressures are as responsible for the increase as relaxed moral standards.

35.   Economists see the increase as another sign that the economy is slowing down.

36.   Economists took the increase as a sign that Americans were ready to spend during the Christmas season after a summer lull.

37.   Few changes in the economy would be as likely to provoke the Fed into further interest rate increases as a sharp rise in wages not offset by rising productivity.

38.   Forbes hit Dole hard with TV ads blasting him for having voted for tax increases as Senate majority leader.

39.   Gov. Gray Davis, who has opposed rate increases as part of any solution to the situation, appeared to be softening his position, analysts said.

40.   In the past, business bankruptcies have not shown the same high increases as personal bankruptcies.