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While a strike of a couple of weeks might be doable, some kind of accommodation would have to be reached. If Boeing does cave and give them something like what they want, it will be a bit of a hollow victory because in the long run it will probably result in increased outsourcing.

While anecdotal evidence suggests that the number of frozen pension plans has increased since 2003, reports of a mass exodus from the defined-benefit pension system appear to be overstated.

Without any evidence, the report just asserts that increased access to contraception reduces the numbers of unintended pregnancies and therefore abortions. But that assumption is unwarranted.

We have to recognize this is not going to be a painless process. There will be additional layoffs ... There is going to be some pay pain. There will be increased work burdens.

Yesterday we increased our condition level to four. We're one step from the bottom, an increased state of readiness, and could increase more.

We estimate that residential heating degree days (a measurement of heating requirements) were 9 percent lower than those of a year ago, and about 10 percent below normal. In addition, we incurred about $1.7 million increased expenses to restore electric service after windstorms.

We estimate that from 2000 to 2003, health insurance premiums for employers will have increased by about 55 percent, ... In today's tough job market, expect more of these costs to be passed on to the consumer.

We enjoyed a steady growth and each year we increased our sales a little bit. At the same time, I was building a reputation of being honest and fair. And two articles in the paper are starting to destroy that.

We ended 2005 on a very strong note, and achieved record revenues and operating cash flow for the year. We successfully managed through a period of increased energy costs and generated higher free cash flow to improve our credit quality. Over the course of the year, we achieved many strategic milestones, including the acquisition of a major wind energy company in the U.S. and the start of many new projects and platform expansions in various markets around the world.

We have been successful in New Hampshire with or without any other candidates alongside us. I think the increased attention on this debate could certainly help us.

We are trying and we continue to try. We have increased oil production to over 10 million barrels a day.

We are troubled by what seems to be an accelerating trend in increased restrictions on access to government information.

We are thrilled to see our next-generation laser control solution passing a tough list of performance and acceptance criteria to qualify with the leading transceiver OEMs in the industry. Our fully embedded customized solution proves our claims of increased performance, reliability and adaptability to any TOSA type with significant reduction of production costs.

We played really well from beginning to end. We hung in early, and then in the second half we increased our pressure and cruised coming down the stretch.

We must work out if one year of increased spending is enough to boost growth and brand positioning, or will 2007 guidance come under further pressure.

We've made up a lot of ground. With each year we've recruited, we've gotten faster and faster. We've increased our team speed each year, but are we to the level of a Georgia Tech? I don't think so.

We have built an impressive roster of captivating and successful children's entertainment properties. Given the increased number of brands that we are representing that focus on an older audience, we felt it would be beneficial to organize a new subsidiary primarily devoted to the marketing and licensing of these brands. We believe that we can successfully utilize our marketing and licensing expertise to build brand value for properties targeting an older consumer that are not necessarily media or character driven.

We have been working with customers for over 10 years implementing automated supply chain management techniques. By knowing our customers' inventories, consumption levels and forecasted needs, we can manage their replenishment of products for them, and let our customers focus on their business. It's convenient and the benefits to customers include significantly lower operational expenditures as well as increased service levels.

We're witnessing an increased demand from broadcast providers for solutions that extend their programming across broadband platforms. Our work with Leafs TV and 'Full Contact Fishing' not only combines the leading distribution channels but also enhances the on-air programming through synchronized interactivity.

Viruses emerging for the Mac OS X platform is headline news for Apple fans, but they are currently posing far from the level of threat that Windows users face every day. No-one should panic, but this is an indication that hackers are showing an increased interest in targeting the platform.

UVSC is now the third largest institution in the state, and this survey shows that our support and perceptions have increased over the past two years,

With the energy bill having increased recently, the risk is that consumers will tighten their belts over Christmas. The euro-zone economy is still at risk of a disappointing Christmas.

With the vast majority of wind energy development taking place in rural areas, wind energy projects are also providing real and ongoing economic benefits to both rural landowners through lease payments and rural municipalities through increased tax revenues.

We have tried to make the festival affordable to families who might like to come for the weekend. We have expanded our camping spaces because some people like to stay right on site. We have not increased our prices.

We believe the increased promotional environment will continue to cause concerns about earnings strength in the quarter.

We believe the global expansion needs to be balanced up, not balanced down, ... An adjustment should take place in our countries through increased public savings. Internationally, there needs to be an adjustment through an increase in exports rather than reduced imports.

We have the ability to meet a considerable amount of increased demand over the next several months, and even years.

We were hoping it (the increased amount) would level off. We don't expect any relief from high adjustments until June.

Travelers will indeed see increased security measures at our airports, train stations, and other key sights, ... There will be higher levels of surveillance, more stringent searches. Airport curbside luggage check-in will no longer be allowed. There will be more security officers and random identification checks.

We get the sense that things are now being accounted for appropriately in the right quarter. Hopefully, Nortel will exercise increased financial rigor going forward.

We can attribute some of last month's decline to the rise in the Canadian dollar and increased concern among companies as to the impact this will have on export penetration and earnings, but at the end of the day the Ivey has never been a valued directional indicator because of its volatility and desks may partially dismiss the decline as a result.

We found a moral hazard in the balance. While relaxing regulations reduced the probability of violating game laws, they increased the probability of hunters mistaking another person for game.

We are watching with increased concern the spiral of violence as a result of what appear to be deliberate Serb decisions to move ahead toward a military solution

We have a very nervous investment environment. The excuse is bond rates are up and there is increased concern about the financial futures market, which appears to be predicting three more rate hike for the Fed funds.

We have a very arts-rich curriculum. I could get rid of all that. But if I increased my test scores, does that mean a student is better educated? No.

We have not lessened the strength of terrorists around the world and have not lessened but have increased both the number and the fervor and the organizational capabilities of terrorists,

We haven't raised our rates since 1992. In that time, the consumer price index has increased by 53 percent; but we have kept our rates steady over that time because we have managed costs.

We haven't increased the number of teams in a long time and the quality has increased so much, I would have thought it would have been expanded a long time ago. This year more than ever there were teams that barely got in or didn't get in that can win games.

The preparedness on all levels has increased 10-fold from the local citizens up to the government level. People are a taking it a lot more serious. I think everybody has seen how devastating these storms can be, both to their property and to their potential loss of life. I think the awareness level, seriousness and priority it has given has made it a lot easier for the preparation to take place.

We are delighted with our strong earnings, particularly recognizing both the increased market competition as well as the quarter's volatile markets,

We are delighted to have increased our ownership stake in the Four Seasons Hotel in Damascus. This transaction is firmly in line with our strategy to acquire and consolidate the minority stakes in hotels that we already own.

We are delighted to be recognized by Training Magazine as one of the top ten companies on the Training 100 list for a fifth straight year. The global Ernst & Young organization is committed to a culture of putting our people first. Part of this commitment is providing our professionals with continual training and learning opportunities that help them develop and grow, leading to increased fulfillment in their work and the highest quality service to our clients.

We know that customers are tiring of these electric rate increases. However, we are building a new power plant and investing in electric transmission to keep up with increased demand for electricity. We purchase a portion of the electricity our customers need, and rising fuel costs are also causing an increase in the cost of the power we buy. These investments and purchases are needed to ensure reliability. Simply put, our business is more costly to operate than it was in the past.

We know that as we start to measure health effects, that people who are stressed at work cost companies more money, have more problems with heart disease, we think, have more problems with increased injury risk, (and) other kinds of medical problems,

Unfortunately, the member states of the UN, EU and OSCE are not prepared to put out the financial resources needed to keep up the increased need for police training.

Unfortunately our previous warnings and appeals have received a very limited response from donors. We don't want Kenya to become another Niger, where ... donations only increased when people started dying after months of appeals for contributions to prevent deaths.

We are seeing increased steroid use in high school athletes. I believe it starts with dietary supplements among young people and then leads to anabolic steroid use and other performance-enhancing drug use.

We are adding parking and a signal at the south entrance of the campus, but as we've seen with the new Kenilworth Junior High School, increased traffic will have an impact. Fortunately, unlike Kenilworth students, our students will not all be arriving and departing at the same time. And we'll be encouraging everyone to take mass transit and carpool.

We're not satisfied that we lost a win at the end - our opponent increased its quality at the final stages.

We are pleased that our opposition to the original merger agreement has resulted in increased consideration for all shareholders.

We are pleased that local consumption has increased from 5% to 25% since August 2004.

We are particularly concerned about the increased graphics requirement, so we will need to do a fair amount of testing to ensure that it doesn't bog down the systems too much with our current hardware.

We are only now starting to hear indications of increased pricing power, but they're still anecdotal and we don't see it across the board.

The poll clearly shows this is a major concern, especially during the holidays because of increased drinking and increased driving.

The outlook on the steel industry is not that positive with increased production from China and price declines.

What we have seen is an increased awareness of the need for a disaster plan. All the images on TV and the newspaper had an impact on everybody, certainly when people think about their software and hardware and the survival of their business.

We are cutting our revenue and earnings forecasts for Compaq due to a clearly slowing consumer market for PCs -- an area that has been responsible for a significant amount of the company's recent top-line growth -- the likelihood of increased pricing pressure from Dell on the corporate side, and fears related to economic uncertainty.

When we're funded better and you can look at this historically, tuition is not increased or it is increased at a lesser level. So it is really important that the state continue to maintain their share so we can continue to keep to the tuition down so that every body has access. Federal-grants-in-aid hasn't kept up. So if we want to continue to make college affordable, this is the type of year we need to have.

Whereas we typically see a new year's increase, our polling indicates that workers are approaching this year with a 'wait-and-see' attitude. This is not a great cause for concern, though, as worker sentiment remains essentially unchanged from December, which showed increased optimism overall.

We have long and cold winters, so people get hit very hard by increased utility and heating costs.

We are happy to announce Nimbus as the winner of the global media rights and look forward to a successful partnership with them to ensure increased coverage and penetration of the game among the people the world over.

We are grateful to local consumers for their increased consumption of ostrich meat, which expanded the local market considerably,

We are currently finishing up research that is looking at the causes of increases in jet contrail coverage beyond simply increased number of flights. These results are currently in review and will hopefully be published later this year.

We are confident we will capture larger market share with the increased footprint.

This nationwide telephone number will provide callers expanded services and hours and the opportunity to speak with an actual person, ... With all that displaced families are going through starting to rebuild their lives, the last thing they need to encounter is an answering machine without answers. We have increased our staffing at the National Servicing Call Center in Oklahoma, and we currently have the capacity to handle 15,000 calls daily.

We actually increased our spending this year because we believe it is a great time to build market share using advertising.

We are just getting warmed up. With the increased software and hardware costs of Microsoft 's Vista , now is the time to give open source a real look.

We recognize that tuition over time has increased pretty significantly.

The rate of syphilis increased 11 percent in men, from 2003 to 2004,

There is money on the books but it's dedicated to increased wages. It's going to be quite a major problem. It really is.

There is likely a greater concern about further bankruptcies in the industry. The more common bankruptcies at auto suppliers become, the increased perception that one of the automakers might go that route.

There is increased scrutiny across the board about safety in the bag well area and on the tarmac with our aircraft, We also have an executive team that's looking across the board at the incidents that happened this week to see if there's any other steps we can take to prevent this from happening again.

There is increased likelihood that China and the United States can make substantial progress or even sign an agreement during the fourth round of talks,

There is increased competition as carriers all vie for renewals in this profitable market. The natural market reaction is to drive down prices.

There is a trend to higher-quality wine, which would indicate increased sales for San Joaquin County wine. We don't participate in the jug-wine market.

The question is, did they achieve the goals that were set out for them? Did they do the work? And I think they did. We've seen increased funding for Texas since the consultants were hired.

The promise of increased profit is too enticing for industry to give up on Terminator seeds.

The project should support and broaden the current retail function, be conducive to reinstating the office and residential function of the area, and is expected to be a catalyst for increased private sector investment in the area.

This study provides strong evidence that daily hospital admission rates for cardiovascular diseases and respiratory diseases are higher when the fine particulate matter levels are increased from one day to the next.

This study clearly showed that when the climate was warming but still pretty cold, the ice sheet grew due to increased precipitation that fell as snow, and more than made up for any melting. But at some point the warming became more pronounced, did not offset any increases in snow, and the ice sheet disappeared fairly rapidly.

This strong performance reflects higher export prices across almost 80 per cent of all minerals and energy commodities exported, along with increased export volumes for over two thirds.

This strike therefore does not put workers at risk for fines or sanctions, but effectively mounts increased pressure on the employer, as Queens is a conduit point to and from Manhattan.

We were able to reduce spending through changes in the way lenders operate. But at the same time, we shielded the direct impact to students, and actually increased student opportunities.

We delivered another excellent quarter with strength in all areas of the business. Our strong operating results this quarter were driven by increased revenue growth, improved capacity utilization, favorable product mix and the timing of our spending initiatives.

We definitely see a leveling off in sales growth this year. However, there are a number of positive factors -- such as improvements in disposable income, increased corporate spending and relatively low unemployment -- that will help maintain sales.

We believed that Cisco's results would further magnify the inventory problems facing their semiconductor suppliers -- and they did, ... While revenue increased 14 percent from the previous quarter, total inventory increased 59 percent and raw materials increased 335 percent.

We believe both consumers and corporations will have increased data storage needs as the digital world continues to take root. Whether it's portable media players or devices that can archive years worth of emails, data storage hardware has become an essential part of everyday life. As a result, we have favorable recommendations on a number of companies in this area.

We began systems integration in the fourth quarter and expect to complete integration of Harrah's customer-relationship capabilities -- our Total Rewards player-loyalty program and revenue- and yield-management systems -- into the Caesars properties in April 2006. Based upon our experience with other acquired properties, we anticipate these capabilities will enable the Caesars facilities to benefit from increased market share and visitation.

We are more optimistic, even if the oil price has increased further. We are happy because we are more resilient.

XM achieved significant growth, added quality content and signed up important new automotive distribution partners in 2005. At the start of 2005, XM had 3.2 million subscribers and led the satellite radio competition by 2.1 million subscribers. Over the course of the year, XM increased that lead to 2.6 million subscribers.

The decrease in pervasive attacks in 2005 is counter-intuitive to what society at large believes is a major threat to their personal data. IBM believes that the environment has shifted - with increased security protection on most systems and stiffer penalties, we are seeing organized, committed, and tenacious profiteers enter this space. This means that attacks will be more targeted and potentially damaging. Organizations around the world - from the public and private sectors - must move quickly and work together to address this growing challenge.

The Department for Education and Skills looks to be losing ground in its battle against truancy. Having remained at the same level for many years, the level of truancy has suddenly increased - to over 0.8% of school days.

The demand has increased quite a bit recently for the needy with the price of gas and everything going up. The need for food is a lot greater now.

The delegates in Buenos Aires have to be reminded that climate change is not something which will happen in the future, it is happening now, most dramatically in the Arctic. The main cause is clear and undisputed. Increased carbon dioxide in the atmosphere due to the burning of fossil fuels is accepted as the main cause of climate change by all scientists save those working for the fossil fuel industry. Polar bears may be some of the earliest victims, but the rest of us are not far behind.

The degree of difficulty has been exponentially increased by Katrina.

Western juniper has rapidly expanded into neighboring plant communities over the past 130 years. It has caused increased soil erosion, reduced forage production, altered wildlife habitat, changed plant communities and their structure and biodiversity.

We started with 16 wardens which has been increased to 28 and covers a wider area. More people were looking for wardens in their area.

The fact that fuel prices have increased and more importantly, fuel price forecasts have increased since the proposal was developed suggests a stronger standard is warranted.

The fact that all of a sudden, we've increased the Sun sales force by well over 1,000 storage-savvy salespeople combined with the breadth of the product line allows us to have a fundamentally different conversation with a customer than we were able to have before.

The exports earning forecast for 2006-2007 mainly reflects increased export shipments of iron ore, liquefied natural gas (LNG), grains and oilseeds in response to strong demand in Australia's export markets.