41.   Global warming is thought to be behind the recent increase in both La Nina and El Nino events.

42.   Haiken alludes to but does not deal at length with the recent increase in surgeries for men.

43.   He added, however, that the agency is looking at training and other steps to reverse a recent increase in incursion-causing errors by airport tower controllers.

44.   He also said it was not clear what had caused the more recent increase in deaths.

45.   Government data cite recent increases in vehicle prices as an important contributor to a rising inflation rate.

46.   He also praised a recent increase in efforts at religious dialogue between Catholics and Muslims.

47.   He said the recent increase in the federally mandated minimum has not hurt the national economy.

48.   He thinks recent increases in commodity prices foretell a strengthening economy, and that cyclical stocks, which have been relatively weak lately, will rebound.

49.   He said there had been a recent unexplained increase in such cases on eastern Long Island.

50.   Hospital executives and Medicare officials said they were puzzled by the recent increase in admissions.