Many analysts now estimate the American economy to have grown 4.1% in 1999, compared with the expected 3.9% -- meaning that the U.S. Federal Reserve's three increases last year did not cool the economy as intended.
During this same period of time most automotive companies have had at least three price increases and general inflation (CPI) has gone up 8.75 percent.
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Three more increases have followed, the most recent on Tuesday.
Over the last three years, increases in the published counts based on additional information have averaged 166 fatalities per year, or about 3% of the revised total.
All three show recent increases.
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The WSJ fails to note the impact of higher energy prices on food prices: A 2007 study by John Urbanchuk at LECG suggests increases in petroleum prices have two to three times the impact that increases in corn prices have on the food Consumer Price Index alone.
That change is estimated to bring down annual increases by three-tenths of one percent.
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Still, the department has reported three straight weeks of increases, which suggests that companies may be cutting jobs.
After three years of muscular increases, year-over-year comps are tougher.
Of nine routes between Delta's three main domestic hubs and those for Northwest, seven have seen above-average fare increases over the past three years.
In the U.S., for example, debt increases two to three times faster than GDP.
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Officers will pay between 1.5 and 4 percentage points more of their salaries, with the increases staggered over three years.
Aides to Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an independent whose three terms have seen big increases in homelessness, partially blamed the surge on the economy.
They would freeze all domestic discretionary spending for three years and cap future increases at the rate of inflation through the rest of the decade.
Three-quarters of the increases in F-35 support costs reported by the Pentagon have resulted from changes in the scope of work being analyzed or changes in the methodology for how costs should be calculated, rather than rising costs in the program.
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Unless Congress acts, the American people will face massive tax increases in less than three years.
All are at or near the top of their respective leagues in ticket-price increases over the past three years.
With a trend of significant wage increases through the last three years, the outlook for respiratory therapists looks good.
If we do not address this challenge, we will leave our children three bad options: huge tax increases, huge deficits, or huge cuts in benefits.
The snag is that in projecting big spending increases for the next three years, Mr Blair is assuming that the good times will keep on rolling.
The urgent needs for evolution increases damaging effects of the three-headed open core model.
He has handsomely increased government spending for the past three years, including much-needed increases in cash-transfer programmes.
Out of 35 in the West Midlands, only three defied the government with council tax increases confined to Telford and Wrekin, Stoke-on-Trent (both Labour) and Lichfield District (interestingly, Conservative).
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Economist Dean Baker notes that these cuts would hit the average retiree three times as hard as the recent tax increases hit the top 1%.
Denmark, Netherlands, and Ireland went unscathed, recording no drop in consumption, while in Finland, Sweden and the UK there were small increases in consumption by up to three percent.
Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina and Texas all underperform in two out of the three measures, but all saw absolute earning increases of 15% or less over 10 years.
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In contrast, if the tax rate is reduced from 50% to 25%, what producers are allowed to keep from their production increases from one-half to three-fourths, increasing the reward for production and output by one-half.
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In contrast, if the tax rate is reduced from 50% to 25%, what producers are allowed to keep from their production increases from one-half to three-fourths, increasing the reward for production and output by one half.
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