1.  So increased state spending did increase demand.

2.  But Bush has also opposed several pieces of legislation that would have greatly increased state spending on the communities.

3.  Larger school enrollments and the cost of running state prisons will be among major demands for increased state spending.

4.  Sharp said his programs do not amount to increased state spending because he plans to propose budget cuts to pay for them.

5.  Whitman also called for increased state spending for community colleges to hold the line on tuition increases.

6.  Another U.S. military spokesman at Central Command headquarters near Tampa, Florida, said he had heard nothing about an increased state of alert.

7.  But inflation and economic instability have pushed even the Foreign Ministry to join the chorus of pleas for increased state funding.

8.  It recommended increased state funding, especially to hospitals that so far have not qualified for any charity care payments because of their limited number of such cases.

9.  It said the increased state of alert had nothing to do with North Korea, although the country is on a U.S. list of countries sponsoring terrorism.