1.   If workers believe inflation is likely to accelerate, they will demand high enough wages to compensate for expected increases in prices.

2.   The expected increase in interest rates has already had an effect on stock prices.

3.   Also, heavy rains wiped out expected increases this year in Mexican and Central American crops.

4.   Are public health agencies ready for an expected increase in heat-related deaths and possibly the migration of tropical diseases farther north?

5.   Appliance sales should rise with an expected increase in consumer spending.

6.   Basing an expected increase in offense on expansion, Epstein noted, is a mistake.

7.   Brazilian stocks were little changed amid concern that an expected increase in the minimum wage may fuel inflation and make fixed-income investments relatively more attractive than equities.

8.   A higher than expected increase in prices paid to farmers, factories and other producers depressed stocks and bonds in the U.S. and Europe on Friday.

9.   All that means the economy is well positioned to digest an expected increase in consumer spending.

10.   Already, people have been rushing to buy homes to take advantage of cheap mortgages and to beat an expected increase in the consumption tax.