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It's wasteful spending like this that not only forces tax increases and cuts in vital services... but also really make you wonder: who is City Hall looking out for?

Fiscal decentralisation does not lead to higher economic growth because economic growth is much more driven by factors other than taxes and spending, e.g. increases in technological progress and improved human capital.

As the size of cyclotrons increases and faster particles are produced, a difficulty arises due to the relativistic increase of mass of the particle.

Even as global warming increases the frequency of El Nino and the Atlantic event, their effects are being amplified by the annual loss of an area of rain forest the size of New Jersey. Less rain falls, and the water runs into the rivers instead of being sucked up by the fungus filaments and tree roots.

The first autonomous cars date back to the late 20th century. But recent increases in sophistication and reductions in cost - reflected, for example, in cheap LIDAR systems, which can 'see' a street in 3D in a way similar to that of the human eye - are now bringing autonomous cars closer to the market.

Becoming a father increases your capacity for love and your level of patience. It opens up another door in a person - a door which you may not even have known was there. That's what I feel with my son. There's suddenly another level of love that expands. My son is my greatest joy, out of everything in my life.

Astronomers sometimes observe that a star of medium magnitude increases suddenly in size; a star invisible to the naked eye may become very brilliant and visible without any telescope - the appearance of a Nova.

In neighborhoods without a usable park or playground, the incidence of childhood obesity increases by 29 percent.

The government that governs from afar absolutely requires that the truth and the facts reach its knowledge by every possible channel, so that it may weigh and estimate them better, and this need increases when a country like the Philippines is concerned, where the inhabitants speak and complain in a language unknown to the authorities.

Being deeply knowledgeable on one subject narrows one's focus and increases confidence, but it also blurs dissenting views until they are no longer visible, thereby transforming data collection into bias confirmation and morphing self-deception into self-assurance.

Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I write first drafts with a mechanical pencil and a yellow legal pad. There's good reason for this primitive behavior: I am a crackerjack typist. My hand moves far more quickly than my brain.

An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.

Unless one believes in a superhuman reason which directs evolution, one is bound to believe in a reason inherent in humanity, a motive power transcending that of each separate people, just as the power of the organism transcends that of the organ. This reason increases in proportion as the unity of mankind becomes established.

Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.

The Obama administration's large and sustained increases in debt raise the specter of another financial crisis and large future tax increases, further chilling business investment and job creation.

Many foreclosed homes are neglected or abandoned, as legal proceedings or other factors delay their resale. Deteriorating or vacant properties can, in turn, directly affect the quality of life in a neighborhood, for example, by leading to increases in vandalism or crime.

No one should be so naive as to think that wages among organized groups will not be increased, under pressure if necessary, to make up for increases in the cost-of-living, nor should anyone ordinarily object to such adjustments.

As a man grows and increases in the things of this world, if he is not careful, he will lose the Spirit of the Lord, and he will set his heart upon the things of this world.

The minimum wage now in our country, I think we've set that, so there are a lot of people have benefited from it in our country, but I think we ought to review how much it ought to be, and whether or not we ought to have increases in the minimum wage.

Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.

It seems like the opportunity just increases exponentially. There doesn't seem to be much stopping.

Last year, I was proud to be an original co-sponsor of legislation that would increase federal judges' salaries by more than 40 percent. It also built in a cost of living adjustment, so the Judicial Branch would not be dependent on the Legislative Branch for increases each year.

Educating girls just one year beyond the average fourth grade education increases their eventual earnings by 10 to 20 percent. Every additional year of secondary education can increase future wages by 15 to 25 percent.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

The facility of obtaining food is beneficial in two ways to the owners of capital, it at the same time raises profits and increases the amount of consumable commodities.

Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.

You have to let the market reward effort and skill. But a system in which inequality of incomes constantly increases over time is worrisome.

So in terms of the global economic footprint, let's just say China within the next decade and a bit is likely to emerge as the world's largest economy. Obviously its foreign policy and security policy footprint increases and that creates both challenges and opportunities for us all.

I've come to the conclusion that the government needs to impose price controls on tuition increases - and so, I think, has President Obama.

The thing we don't want to do is overstate the benefits, but there is all kinds of proof that exercise, both physical and mental, increases brain activity.

Every day, the temperature of Sol's surface increases by five billionths of a degree, a change of no consequence for thousands of millennia to come. But a few hundred million years from now, barring a fix by our descendants, this relentless heating will substantially change Earth's biosphere in ways that might not be survivable for us.

Tax increases slow economic growth. Why would you raise taxes? We need to reform spending, the tens of trillions of unfunded liabilities can never be funded by tax increases, that can only be fixed by reducing spending.

We vetoed five income tax increases during my time as governor. We cut business taxes $2.3 billion, and we cut regulation by one-third of what my predecessor put in place.

Tea Partiers hate government more than they hate the national debt. They refuse to reduce that debt with tax increases, even with tax increases on the wealthy, because a tax increase doesn't reduce the size of government.

One of the reasons the U.S. economy is more dynamic than Europe's and Japan's is because we have foreigners who want to work here. In our area, immigration holds down the cost of farm goods and roof repair. And it increases the ability of contractors to respond more rapidly after a hurricane with lower prices.

On the path that we're headed on today, either there have to be dramatic changes in entitlement programs and other federal spending, or dramatic tax increases to close the fiscal gap.

New vehicle sales declined modestly, reflecting the performance of the broader new car marketplace following the end of the employee discount programs. Other sales and revenues benefited from increases in extended service plan revenues and service department sales.

When the Medicare drug benefit was passed, AARP issued a challenge to the drug industry to keep increases at least to the rate of inflation until people had better coverage. By and large, that's not happening, ... Prices are going up more than twice the rate of inflation.

We had a very solid move up in stocks in the first quarter. There's a good chance that what the markets will be left with is a great deal of uncertainty or even the belief that more rate increases are coming.

We had been predicting home price increases would slow down. Now they won't slow as quickly.

Some customers are seeing increases up to 70 percent.

Obviously, we know this will be a tough winter for customers who are most vulnerable to these increases in natural gas costs.

One should continue performing such virtuous deeds that increases strength, life-span and sharpens our power of vision.

Only adjusting the lending rate alone increases the banks' lending margin. Everything else being equal, it enhances banks incentive to lend.

One idea that I toyed around with is that dark energy is a complicated network of rubber sheets. If you stretch them, you have to provide force and because of it, the sheet gains energy. The universe expansion is much like stretching this network of sheets, which increases energy.

More and more families from across the state are joining our team and we have seen dramatic increases in the number of contributors - and total funds raised - from almost every county. We continue to have more resources than our Democratic opponent, and there's no doubt we will be better equipped to win the Democratic primary.

People would start to worry about growth, and given the fact that the market is already looking for the Fed to end its rate increases this could be a dollar negative. No one would expect central banks to be raising rates in an environment where energy costs are going up sharply.

Nevada once again has shown double digit increases in tax revenue, ... Nevada continues to show economic stability with its desirable business climate and booming tourism sector.

Revenue growth in our gaming division has not been sufficient to offset the combination of operating cost increases and Blue Square?s lower win margins.

If the Senate believes that the American public supports any of the proposals for drastic increases in legal immigration and amnesty, no matter how they want to label it, they need to use to the Easter break to go home and listen to what their constituents really want.

If we have congestion, it increases travel times and costs more to deliver goods and services. According to the state's own numbers, we already have the roadways with the highest fatality rates.

Learning from your heroes increases your information retention. And these soccer players in Africa are the heroes in their community.

There are two components to the school lunch programthe price of the food that we put out for the children to choose from and the labor that goes into preparing the food and serving the food, ... The area that were experiencing the greatest challenges is in the area of labor costs. Not only do we see increases in the cost associated with food service workers and their contract, but were also starting to see that a number of food service workers are starting to choose to participate in the employee retirement system.

When we're talking about changes, we're not talking about changing eligibility but decreasing the amount of increases in spending we have seen, ... It will be difficult to trim very many benefits, but that's not to say we can't take a look and see how we can do things more efficiently.

We're looking at some pretty compelling increases mostly for gasoline, and it's based on worry,

We're seeing the productivity gains split up between wage increases and profits.

We're seeing tremendous increases each year in the number of taxpayers e-filing their returns from home.

Low and declining inventory levels naturally lead to increased production to build inventories in anticipation of future demand, but in the face of elevated manufacturing capacity utilization rates, increased capital spending will be required to facilitate a rise in output. Since our last capital spending forecast in December 2005, significant increases in spending for 2006 have been announced, suggesting growth in capital expenditures of about 10 percent this year.

Lowe's today is in a better position to weather interest rate increases because we've shifted our customer focus,

Modest vehicle price increases brought about by rand depreciation, the impact of local inflation, and substantial increases in the price of steel, plastics and paint could impact negatively on vehicle sales.

Since Katrina, instead of going up $5,000 or $10,000 every week or two, we have been limited to no price increases or very limited price increases,

Since the New Year, we've seen 1 and 2 cent increases almost every day. At that pace, the average price has shot up into the mid $2 range.

Medicare premium increases are unaffordable for many seniors as they struggle to keep up with the high cost of prescription drugs, record gas prices and their daily expenses.

Mississippi has worked hard to entice avid golf-and-gaming travelers to visit our great state, because we knew if we got them here once, they would come back. The sales increases demonstrate the rising trend of visitors to Mississippi and we hope increasingly more visitors will judge our offerings for themselves.

Mitigating the price increases of ESPN is not something Comcast has to do by acquiring Disney now. It's now something that's just happening,

Motorists can expect two to three weeks more of price increases that could send the average price of regular as high as $3.10 to $3.20 per gallon.

Magellan continued to generate robust cash flows through the quarter, allowing us to extend our string of quarterly distribution increases to 20 since our initial public offering in early 2001. We remain committed to our stated goal of 8% to 10% distribution growth during 2006.

Lying increases the creative faculties . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forbearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that it falls so short of in fact and in deeds.

Machinery makers are enjoying steady increases in their production. Japan's strong economy is boosting domestic demand.

Solid financial results and excellent prospects for future success enable us to continue our long history of consistent dividend payments for our shareholders. We continue to achieve success in our core business activities especially the growth in loans, which becomes the foundation for our future earnings prospects and provides the capability to provide dividend increases such as we're announcing today.

So far, the perceived gas price increases have not had any discernible impact on new-vehicle buying patterns, as least with regard to the size of the engine.

Since 2001, annual increases have dropped from 4.72 to 3.64 percent. Barring any major economic changes, 2006 will mark the first year where salary increases are likely to climb.

Signals for the immediate future point to continued expansion, although not at the breakneck pace of the fourth quarter of 1999, ... The biggest risk to the ongoing expansion continues to be interest-rate increases and the prospect of still more Federal Reserve Board action.

Significant improvements in pricing, particularly for our North American brands, more than compensated for increases in fuel costs.

Significant increases are possible with the right combination of government policy and technical interventions,

Signs of financial stress still are present. The persistent interest rate increases by the Federal Reserve and record high gas prices in the third quarter provided a one-two punch that continued to inflict pain on personal budgets.

should grow in proportion to increases in corporate profitability.

Sequential and year-over-year gains were recorded in all major product groups and applications, reflecting primarily increases in unit volumes.

Secondhand smoke is even worse than we thought. It increases the risk for an acute coronary event like a heart attack or long-term development of atherosclerosis.

Seven of the top-10 majors with the highest starting salary offers saw increases in their offers over last year. Engineering remains strong, and another high point comes for economics/finance graduates, who saw a spectacular 11-percent increase to their average starting salary offers.

On a net, net, net basis, if you look at all the increases this year and look at after the sale, ... fares are 8 percent higher than a year ago. So for all the hoopla and concern, the airlines are making more money than a year ago.

She should make the highest allowable contribution. This year, the federal limit is $11,000, and it increases annually until it reaches $15,000 in 2005.

The price of gas goes up every day, and the need to do this increases every day. We'd like to see the Assembly join us.

The prices have gone down because the prices we purchase natural gas have gone down. There also has been increased drilling and increases in storage capacity.

Handling multi-data feeds increases the complexity, things that you want to see on a fixed bill are different to a mobile bill.

Know your stuff. That makes it easier to avoid nasty surprises, such as a contract coming up for renewal with no clauses capping price increases in it, when you have allowed yourself no time to renegotiate anything.

Keynote measures the customer experience because ultimately all business success is driven by the customer experience. Our studies have consistently shown a strong correlation between a positive online experience and increases in brand equity and customer acquisition and retention.

Knowledge increases his thinking capabilities and helps him in getting new and innovative ideas.After implementing those ideas successfully he earns wealth.

I would think his election increases the likelihood of a pension bill this year.

has ended social promotion and put in place a tough accountability system that has produced dramatic increases in test scores.

has offered our musicians an extremely fair contract proposal. ... The contract includes increases in salary and benefits and fully protects the existing overtime system. They have rejected that proposal and walked away from the table.

Greenspan is coming to the end of his term and he really wants to get the interest rate increases done before he leaves. He may feel he can't afford to take a meeting off.

I don't anticipate asking for any more increases in the near future at all. Not even the far future.

Given recent Fed warnings over high levels of capacity utilization and low levels of unemployment, today's report increases the probability that the Fed will raise rates above 5.0% later this year. Last Friday's release of March unemployment further buttresses this view.

Given the historically slow pace of change for dividends, the growth in dividend payers since January 2003 has been remarkable. Unlike the prior 20 years when the number of paying issues actually declined by 25%, since the start of 2003 the number of paying issues within the S&P 500 issues has risen by 10% to 386. For the remainder of 2006, we expect a continuation in both dividend increases and initiations among S&P 500 constituents, resulting in another double-digit gain in dividend payments.

Growing new limbs, copying internal organs like a Xerox machine, exponential increases in computing power, better eyes and ears - I could read stories like this endlessly.

I am very concerned for the safety of this animal at the moment, particularly if boat traffic increases in the river.

Fukui's comments have become dovish on rates and suggest he has no intention to tighten immediately. The pace of U.S. rate increases is expected to be much faster, given the comments from Fed officials. This will weigh on the yen.

Gains have been broad-based, and that's encouraging because the fact that the increases in employment are not dependent on one particular industry suggests that this improvement in job creation is on a sustainable trend.

From July until the end of December was one of the highest periods ever of increases for transportation projects. Labor costs are not an issue here - it's raw materials.