61.   Others, like Julie Hegeler, who owns a small business, characterized a fare increase as a form of tax increase.

62.   Sen. Edward Kennedy has been promising to offer the wage increase as an amendment to some bill for several weeks, and got his chance.

63.   She expects numbers to increase as word of the quality of the show gets out.

64.   Smith does not see tax increases as a negative.

65.   Slightly more than half the deaths from heart disease in the United States now occur among women, and this share is likely to increase as the population ages.

66.   Some oppose any increase as anti-business, while others are advising Bush that he could win a lot of good will by embracing an increase.

67.   Some of those notes were inverse floaters, in which the interest rate increases as overall rates decline, the people said.

68.   Some traders interpreted the rate increase as a step by Germany toward European monetary union.

69.   Still, traders and investors expect sales to increase as governments race to sell bonds before their authorization expires.

70.   That helped Sony and other Japanese exporters because the yen value of profits earned overseas increases as the currency weakens, allowing them to cut prices without harming earnings.