Largely in an attempt to neutralize Congressional opposition to the proposed sale, the Bush administration also announced that it plans to increase annual military assistance to Israel by some 25 percent next year and that it hopes that next year's increase in assistance will be maintained by the next administration.
The year-over-year increase was primarily driven by strong top-line growth along with improved margins.
The year-on-year increase was partially offset by an improvement in prepaid branded churn as a result of unlimited Monthly 4G prepaid plans introduced in 2011.
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The company set its expectations for fiscal 2011 just in line with what analysts are expecting, saying they expect full-year earnings to increase by 10% to 15% for the full year.
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However the company corrected loses it sustained for sales of Roundup and other herbicides last year after a repositioning, seeing them increase by 3% after dropping 62% last year.
The sequential and year-on-year increase in blended churn was primarily driven by higher churn from branded contract and connected device customers.
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He believed life expectancy would continue to increase by one year roughly every three to four years.
The CBO notes early on in the report that it expects real GDP to increase by 2.3% this year and by 2.7% next year.
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According to a person knowledgeable about the Los Angeles Times' operations, Tribune is demanding that the paper increase its profits each year by 7 percent.
And the number of corporate insolvencies is expected to increase in Japan this year by only 15%, despite the depth of its recession, compared with more than 30% in western Europe and 40% in America.
Though copper and gold prices stagnated for a brief period during April-May, we expect that the Chinese demand for copper will increase by the year end pushing up the average realized prices for the metals.
New York City had the smallest year-over-year increase at 2.6 percent, followed by Cleveland at 4.8 percent.
Same-store revenue rose 6.3% year-over-year, driven by a 340 basis point increase in same-store occupancy to 87.1%.
We expect the revenues from this segment to increase by greater than 50% this year and more than double by the end of our forecast period.
While operating profit for the Display Panel segment registered an on-year increase, the Semiconductor Business saw profits drop by 38 percent compared with the same period last year, despite outperforming the previous quarter.
In Wales, there is a year-on-year increase of 15%, but this has been driven by a 37% increase for teaching in primary schools, with only a 0.5% for secondary schools.
And, according to IDC Financial Insights, the volume of digital content is expected to increase this year from last by 48 percent.
The FAA predicts that delays will increase 62 percent by the year 2014, given projected passenger growth and the antiquated air-traffic control system.
But to use recent history as s guide: the Mets 2006 playoff season resulted in an 8.3% revenue increase that year, followed by an additional 11.3% in 2007.
China's rapidly growing economy will account for 40% of the 1.65m-barrels-a-day increase in demand expected this year by the International Energy Agency, according to David Fyfe, one of its analysts.
The one-year increase was by far the largest in ten years, although AAA said it had revised its methodology to better reflect the allocation of costs for 75, 000 miles of driving over five years.
The report details that worldwide global jewelry did increase year-over-year in 2010, but its strength was driven almost exclusively by demand in China and India.
Meanwhile, Moody's Economy.com projects unemployment in the L.A. metro area will increase by two percentage points by the end of next year, to about 10%.
This question was addressed in a large-scale project by Gretchen Rubin who tried to increase her happiness over the course of a year by setting herself specific goals that covered, among other areas, marriage, work, leisure, parenthood, friendship, money and so on.
Accessories sales are expected to increase by 13 percent and apparel by 8 percent for the year.
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The higher rate income tax threshold will increase by 1% a year in 2014-15 and 2015-16.
Congress has mandated that ethanol blended into U.S. gasoline will increase to 35 billion gallons per year by 2022.
Those in the European Union are expected to increase by 27% this year.
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In roughly 15 years, Kurzweil estimates, living humans will see their expected lifespan increase by more than a year, every year.
BAA's claim that new larger planes will allow them to increase passenger numbers by 30m a year despite being allowed only 4% more flights.
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