He is basing his guess on new government statistics that show business has broadened its stride -- a new record high in personal income, an increase in housing starts, a spurt in retail sales and a gain in orders for durable goods.

Corroborating Mr. Hodges' figures was the Federal Reserve Board's report of the large sales increase in the nation's department stores for the week ending March 4.

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.

The administration has said the sales tax proposal is merely part of the segregation strategy, since the revenues from the increase would be dedicated to a grant in aid program.

Some contracts specify a scale of royalties payable ( for example, where royalties start at 10 % for the first 10, 000 sales, but then increase to a higher percentage rate at higher sale thresholds ).

During its decline, Master RAM Boards were added to every Electron in an attempt to increase sales.

Restaurant industry sales are expected to reach a record high of $ 476 billion in 2005, an increase of 4. 9 percent over 2004 ...

By changing Bovril to a non-meat base, Unilever hoped to increase sales there, where people enjoy Bovril stirred into porridge.

The growth of exports in 2006 was mainly caused by a strong increase in sales to the United States, the Netherlands, and Japan.

One of the sales promotion actions to increase purchase of domestic products

For example, during the eight-year period ending in 2008, despite overall growth in music sales and one anomalous year of increase, major-label CD sales declined overall by 20 %.

It was also reported that the incident led to a 300 % increase in sales of croquet equipment at Asda, while the TV Five announced that they would be running a series featuring croquet matches played at country houses pitting " rich " against " poor " players.

A Doom-based game called Chex Quest was released in 1996 by Ralston Foods as a promotion to increase cereal sales, and the United States Marine Corps released Marine Doom, designed to " teach teamwork, coordination and decision-making ".

The news of Jones ' death triggered a surge of Internet traffic, causing sales of The Monkees ' music to increase dramatically.

* 2012: US eCommerce and Online Retail sales projected to reach $ 226 billion, an increase of 12 percent over 2011.

Shrimp contributed US $ 97 million in export sales to the economy in 1992 — an increase of 33 percent over the previous year.

Although Holden's involvement in exports has fluctuated since the 1950s, the declining sales of large cars in Australia has led the company to look to international markets to increase profitability.

The baby boom saw a significant increase in sales for Jello.

For a monopoly to increase sales it must reduce price.

For example, a firm could cut prices and increase sales without fear that its actions will prompt retaliatory responses from competitors.

This was seen as a backdoor tactic to increase the number of OS / 2 users, in the belief that this would increase sales and demand for third-party applications, and thus strengthen OS / 2's desktop numbers.

Concerned that the considerable price increase of a Type 911 with " flat " six-cylinder powerplant over the Type 356 would cost the company sales and narrow brand appeal, Porsche executives decided to introduce a new four-cylinder entry-level model.

Traditionally pubs in England were drinking establishments and little emphasis was placed on the serving of food, other than " bar snacks ", such as pork scratchings, and pickled eggs, along with salted crisps and peanuts which helped to increase beer sales.

He welcomed The Indian Councils Act, popularly known as Minto-Morley Reforms, which had been passed by British Parliament in May 1909, terming it as " a marked increase of confidence between the Rulers and the Ruled ".

In the UK during 1909, the Liberal Government included a land tax as part of several taxes in the People's Budget aimed at redistributing wealth ( including a progressively-graded income tax and an increase of inheritance tax ).

He played in 117 games on the season, an increase of the 90 he played in one season before, but Cleveland, who had hired Joe Birmingham as the team's fifth manager since Lajoie gave up the role in 1909, finished 75 – 78 .< Ref name =" Complete " /> Lajoie and Joe Jackson tied for the team lead with 90 RBIs.

The top of the mantle is defined by a sudden increase in seismic velocity, which was first noted by Andrija Mohorovičić in 1909 ; this boundary is now referred to as the " Mohorovičić discontinuity " or " Moho ".

As a result 1959 saw the biggest increase in new districts since 1909 mostly in Calgary and Edmonton.

It entered receivership in 1909 and was in decline up to the outbreak of World War II, not helped by the increase in road traffic.

Recent studies by Weston and Stack had indicated that a turbine aerator could be added to an oxidation pond to increase the rate of oxygen transfer.

Weston added a tag to one cup, which causes the cupwheel speed to increase and decrease as the tag moves alternately with and against the wind.

In cultivated areas, limestone may also be added to increase the ability of the soil to keep the pH stable, but this tactic is largely unusable in the case of wilderness lands.

If weight is added to the boat, the volume below the waterline will increase to keep the weight balance equal, and so the boat sinks a little to compensate.

Intel's successor to the P5 architecture, P6, added superscalar capabilities to its floating point features, and therefore afforded a significant increase in floating point instruction performance.

To increase the volatility of polar fragments, various methylating reagents can be added to a sample before pyrolysis.

Mangonels were relatively simple to construct, and eventually wheels were added to increase mobility.

It is the increase in logical complexity of the database design and the added complexity of the additional constraints that make this approach hazardous.

Plastics and polymers may be added to bind powders of explosive compounds ; waxes may be incorporated to make them safer to handle ; aluminium powder may be introduced to increase total energy and blast effects.

From this relation we see that the increase in enthalpy of a system is equal to the added heat

The first law of thermodynamics for open systems states: The increase in the internal energy of a system is equal to the amount of energy added to the system by matter flowing in and by heating, minus the amount lost by matter flowing out and in the form of work done by the system.

This dual rôle allowed the Committee, to which Clarke and MacDermott added themselves shortly afterward, to promote their own policies and personnel independently of both the Volunteer Executive and the IRB Executive — in particular Volunteer Chief of Staff Eoin MacNeill, who supported a rising only on condition of an increase in popular support following unpopular moves by the London government, such as the introduction of conscription or an attempt to suppress the Volunteers or its leaders, and IRB President Denis McCullough, who held similar views.

; Thickeners: Thickeners are substances which, when added to the mixture, increase its viscosity without substantially modifying its other properties.

Resins were probably added as a thickener ( the Praecepta Militaria refer to the substance as, " sticky fire "), and to increase the duration and intensity of the flame.

When heat is added to a thermal system, the change in entropy is the increase in mass-energy divided by temperature:

* Nitromethane is added to some racing and model fuels to increase power and control combustion.

Then, in an effort to increase the water solubility of uric acid, lithium urate was added to the solution.

The number of active stitches remains the same as when cast on unless stitches are added ( an increase ) or removed ( a decrease ).

Consequently, the demographics of Lebanon were profoundly altered, as the territory added contained people who were predominantly Muslim or Druze: Lebanese Christians, of which the Maronites were the largest subgrouping, now constituted barely more than 50 % of the population, while Sunni Muslims in Lebanon saw their numbers increase eightfold, Shi ' ite Muslims fourfold.

Greases used for axles are composed of a compound of fatty oils to which mica, tar or graphite is added to increase the durability of the grease and give it a better surface.

Within his first year at Olney a gallery was added to the church to increase its congregational capacity, and the weekly prayer-meetings were moved in 1769 to Lord Dartmouth's mansion, the Great House, to accommodate even greater numbers.

Orange bitters were a popular ingredient in the late 19th century, and for the second recipe, the Curaçao appears to have been added to increase the orange flavor.

In 1887, Heaviside proposed that induction coils ( inductors ) should be added to telephone and telegraph lines to increase their self-induction and correct the distortion which they suffered.

If desired, antes can be added to further increase the pressure to win more chips.