Four billion dollars of the spending increase is for defense, an expenditure necessitated by the penny-wise policies of the Eisenhhower Administration, quite apart from the recent crises in Berlin and elsewhere.

The 2% increase in retail sales in October to a 4-month high is encouraging in this connection as well as the most recent consumer survey by the National Industrial Conference Board, which shows a decided pickup in consumer spending plans.

After a recent increase in profits by 60 %, the company refused to raise worker's pay by more than 30 %.

* General assessment: an extensive but antiquated telecommunications network inherited from the Soviet era ; quality has improved ; the Bulgaria Telecommunications Company's fixed-line monopoly terminated in 2005 when alternative fixed-line operators were given access to its network ; a drop in fixed-line connections in recent years has been more than offset by a sharp increase in mobile-cellular telephone use fostered by multiple service providers ; the number of cellular telephone subscriptions now exceeds the population

* System: privatization began in 1988 ; advanced telecommunications infrastructure ; modern system based on extensive microwave radio relay facilities ; fixed-line connections have dropped in recent years as mobile-cellular usage continues to increase, reaching a level of 85 telephones per 100 persons

A recent report ( 2006 ) by the NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, California, indicates that the increased rat presence on Clipperton Island has led to a decline in both crab and bird populations, causing a corresponding increase in both vegetation and coconut palms on the island.

Along with Moncton and Halifax, Fredericton is one of three Maritime cities to register a population increase in recent years.

However, in recent years there has been a massive increase in the number of " water-based " artificial turfs.

By 1970 the national census registered 8. 5 million people, about a 27 percent increase, while the most recent official census in 1984 recorded a figure of 12. 3 million — almost double the 1960 figure ( see table 2, Appendix ).

In recent years there has been a marked increase in the frequency of high winds, heavy rains, summer droughts and flooding both from heavy rain and from high seas.

In recent years the development of automated patch clamp devices helped to increase significantly the throughput in ion channel screening.

The largest recent increase in Merlot plantations has occurred in the south of France, such as Languedoc-Roussillon, where it is often made as a varietal Vin de Pays wine.

In recent years, the spectacular development experienced by Malaysia has seen a steady increase in the number of Mauritian visitors to the country.

The relatively recent increase in the cocaine trafficking business has been largely focused on the Caribbean area.

In recent years, the network has been improving and government spending on road construction recently saw a huge increase, due to rapid development of the country and the inflow of European Union funds for infrastructure projects.

Fuel cell development has increased in recent years due to an attempt to increase conversion efficiency of chemical energy stored in hydrocarbon or hydrogen fuels into electricity.

According to the Silver Institute, silver's recent gains have greatly stemmed from a rise in investor interest and an increase in fabrication demand.

I have cited many examples of recent climatic variability and repeated the warnings of several well-known climatologists that a cooling effect has set in – perhaps one akin to the Little Ice Age-and that climatic variability, which is the bane of reliable food production, can be expected to increase along with the cooling.

domestic satellite system with 3 earth stations ; recent substantial improvement in telephone service in rural areas ; substantial increase in digitalization of exchanges and trunk lines ; installation of a national interurban fibre-optic network capable of digital multimedia services ; fixed-line teledensity, at 16 per 100 persons, is low by regional standards ; mobile-cellular subscribership jumped 50 percent in 2006

Because of the high number of unaccounted emigrants, the recent increase of emigration and the death toll from AIDS, the total population might be declining to as low as 8 million according to some estimates.

The city's roads are usually very crowded during rush hours, due to an increase in car ownership in recent years.

In recent years, scientists have monitored a notable increase in the rate of glacier retreat across the region as a result of global climate change.

The New York Times reported that “ Gary Becker and Julio Jorge Elias argued in a recent paper that ' monetary incentives would increase the supply of organs for transplant sufficiently to eliminate the very large queues in organ markets, and the suffering and deaths of many of those waiting, without increasing the total cost of transplant surgery by more than 12 percent.

Though populations have increased in recent years due to the cleanup of the river, it is still advised for people to not eat large amounts of fish from the Kalamazoo River, and pregnant women are also advised not to eat any fish from the river due to lingering effects of the pollution in the diets of many fish ( particularly bottom feeding fish like catfish which can accumulate high levels of mercury ).

* Eel-tailed catfish ( several rivers, northern New South Wales ) ( However, note recent genetic research which now indicates eel-tailed catfish colonised east coast drainages in multiple colonisation events relatively recently ( by evolutionary standards ) and may subsequently have colonised the Murray-Darling system via an east-to-west river capture event, contrary to usual west-to-east capture events listed here.

The Murray-Darling populations of eel-tailed catfish has declined significantly over recent decades.

Haymaking is an important farming activity in mountain villages which has become somewhat mechanized recent years, although the slopes are so steep that usually scythes are necessary to cut the grass.

In recent centuries, fur farming, notably of mink, has also become widespread and provides the majority of the fur brought to market.

The most recent development is the Salt & Pepper-flavor and product lines from organic farming.

In recent years, Home Farm became partners with Brookfield in producing high-quality lamb and expanded into soft fruit and deer farming.

The county as a whole remains relatively rural, with dairy farming a contributing industry that has consolidated employment in recent years, although production has remained steady.

These included the Neolithic Revolution, when hunter-gatherers began settling down in permanent communities and began farming, through to the Urban Revolution, when society progressed from a series of small towns through to the first cities, and right up to more recent times, when the Industrial Revolution drastically changed the nature of production.

As its nutrient content is somewhat better than that of Common Oat, A. nuda has increased in significance in recent years, especially in organic farming

Native plants, reduced in recent years by extensive farming, include chapote, guayacan, ebony, huisache, brasil, and yucca.

However, cattle farming in recent decades has given way to the industry of raising Christmas trees.

This has declined in recent years as farming has become less labor-intensive and many small farmers have sold off their land to larger concerns for irrigated row crop farming.

Although traditionally sheep country, Omarama area farms, along with those within the rest of the Mackenzie Basin, have rapidly converted to predominantly dairy farming, due to falling sheep meat and wool prices, and the recent boom in dairy product earnings.

Because of changing economic conditions in recent decades, intensive farming and ranching has largely left the area, making land fairly cheap to develop.

These tax returns also show the recent deviation form the traditional sources of wealth in the area ( i. e. farming and allied trades ).

Although farming has been the dominant occupation within the district, in recent years several small businesses have been established in the community.

The Wee in Côte d ' Ivoire, also traditionally became hunters, farmers, and fishermen, but they tended to focus more heavily on crops such as “ rice, yams, taro, manioc, maize, and bananas .” Like the Krahn in Liberia, the Wee traditions of hunting and farming have faced some difficulties, and in more recent years many have instead begun laboring in diamond camps and on rubber plantations.

Although they had recovered somewhat since that time, their population has declined in recent times as suitable habitat is used for farming.

In recent years, environmental awareness has driven demand and conversion to organic farming.

The time and place of the Urheimats of various language family proto-languages spoken by most people alive today is in many cases much more recent than either the Out of Africa date or the origin of farming and herding.

In recent years Panchakavya has found a prominent position in the context of organic farming in Tamil Nadu, India.

During recent years, dairy farming has greatly expanded in importance.

The only heavy industry, aside from forestry and industrial farming, is a small shipyard, although secondary manufacturing has been established in recent years.

Smaller industries include horse and cattle farming, and there is also recent evidence to suggest possible valuable mineral deposits on the island.

The original vegetation cover prior to human settlement has been completely transformed in the basin and indeed most of the surrounding Canterbury-Otago tussock grasslands ecoregion, initially due fires lit by Maori and European settlers, and in more recent times by farming activity and by pests.