The current system also increases the importance of the 100-150 marginal seats where most campaigning is concentrated, and electoral reformers argue that it means the voters in the remaining 400 seats are regarded as irrelevant.
One big win for GM is that there were no pension increases for current or future retirees in the new agreement.
When questioned on the long-term deficit problems (in addition to the current deficit and the increases from TARP and ARRP, Social Security and Medicare are on an unsustainable path) by Sen.
Most economists now expect the Bank of England to delay any rate increases from the current level of 4.0% until August.
That is because already enacted under current law for 2013 are increases in the top tax rates for virtually every major federal tax.
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Most people do not know that already enacted in current law for 2013 are increases in the top tax rates of virtually every major federal tax.
So while the current dividends are safe, any increases in 2008 are likely to be minimal.
Offering new members the same deal that the current 15 get would involve huge increases in Europe's spending.
But even then, if salary and overhead increases continue at the current pace, universities will price themselves out of the reach of most Americans.
Most people do not know that already enacted in current law for 2013 are comprehensive increases in the top tax rates for every other major federal tax.
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The executive agreed on 8 September that tuition fees would be kept at current levels, subject only to inflationary increases.
Mr Niskanen points out that the biggest increases in spending over the past half-century have occurred under unified government (under Lyndon Johnson and the current Mr Bush) while the smallest increases have occurred under divided government (under Eisenhower and Mr Clinton).
Not incidentally, that's also the reason "No Budget, No Pay" does not violate the 27th Amendment, which forbids salary increases or reductions during a current Congress: Their salary is not being reduced, it is being withheld until they actually do their job.
Finally, current or recent use of postmenopausal hormones modestly increases the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer.
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Tax increases are wildly unpopular in the current economic climate, so most observers believe spending cuts will constitute the bulk of the adjustments.
In our current budget, we are calling for mandatory increases in Pell Grant programs to keep up with inflation, improvements in the Perkins Loan Program.
Future spending increases are easier to curtail than current expenditures.
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But the current study cannot rule out that the Merck drug increases other causes of death, as the Pfizer drug appeared to do.
Already enacted into current law to go into effect on January 1 are increases in the top tax rates of nearly every major federal tax.
The increases could represent a 300% rise in current payments and the plan is to eventually charge royalties every time an online listener hears a song.
But smoother increases in marginal tax rates, as under current law, create less economic friction, and fewer deadweight losses, then those with a number of peaks and valleys.
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The current situation is that leases are dribbling in, generating small increases in occupied square footage.
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Under current House rules, all tax cuts have to be offset by increases elsewhere.
About half of the money will come from tax increases, the remainder from wringing savings out of the current Medicare system.
And it would be on top of all the tax rate increases already scheduled to go into effect next year under current law, with the Obamacare taxes becoming effective, and the Bush tax cuts scheduled to expire.
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If gold stays at its current levels, expect to see cost-of-living indexes hit increases of 5% or more.
Both GOP candidates agree that the 103 tax increases, including income and sales tax rate hikes, under current Governor Jon Corzine and his predecessor, the disgraced Jim McGreevey, have done great harm to their state.
Even though adding disks and heads increases the cost of the hard disk drive, in the current environment of higher HDD prices due to shortages from the Thailand floods of 2011 gives some additional leeway for higher prices to pay for the additional components.
Mercer survey backs it up: 54% of Indians are seriously considering leaving their current employer, and in the 16-24 year age bracket, that increases to 66%.
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