51.   Raising salaries when student scores improve is one way, but there are too few students in any class for small gains to be accurate reflections of instructional competence.

52.   Should the president stump for corporations to cut down on the disparities between executive pay and workers pay, and for corporations to raise salaries as profits rise?

53.   Some say that if high-tech employers raised salaries, they would draw the workers they need from elsewhere in the economy.

54.   Stephen E. Gorrie, who heads the Massachusetts Teachers Association, said the governor should concentrate on raising the salaries of all teachers, not just a select few.

55.   That could mean that businesses are beginning to think about increasing starting salaries or raising existing salaries to retain workers, he said.

56.   That measure is widely opposed in Congress, which likes to associate itself with the judiciary when it raises its own salaries.

57.   That could be a recipe for rising profits, even though the company will eventually have to raise salaries for Mexican workers.

58.   That, she said, might mean raising the salaries of civil servants, or opening government to greater scrutiny, or writing new laws.

59.   The government had to change its budget after it decided to raise the salaries of state employees last week.

60.   The government has raised the salaries of some workers, mainly in urban areas, to stimulate spending.