51.   Investors credited the increase on a rush to pick up bargains, after several companies reported good earnings last week.

52.   It blamed the increase on higher-than-expected costs of closing plants in the U.K. and Italy.

53.   It blamed the increase on higher-than-expected costs to close plants in the U.K. and Italy.

54.   Insurers put most of the blame for the increases on a jump in big awards by juries and settlements with patients and their families.

55.   Inventories of automobiles, electronics and machinery rose in July as companies underestimated the effects of the tax increases on sales.

56.   It pinned partial blame for the puny increase on the government shutdown.

57.   Last year, a federal judge in Los Angeles also delayed a fare increase on similar grounds.

58.   Many people say they cannot afford the new fare increases on the subway.

59.   Meanwhile, the tax increase on tobacco has gone the way of the Clinton health-care package.

60.   Much of the organizational energy has gone toward coping with it, and few increases on the expense side of the ledger have been allowed.