32 This study found an overall positive association between BMI and respiratory disease mortality over more than 40 years of follow-up, and evidence of a much smaller increased risk in the low BMI group than in observational studies that measured BMI in middle age.
President Bush, who proposed a much smaller increase of $1 billion a year, depicts both measures as a major step toward nationalized health coverage and has vowed to veto them.
The Bush administration, however, proposes a much smaller increase and new rules for the program.
That was a much smaller increase than the $9.5 billion rise in credit that many analysts had expected.
"For a much smaller increase in long-term interest rates, we've got a much larger increase in A.R.M. share," Mr. Duncan said.
It also compared crime rates in a further 16 London boroughs, which saw a much smaller increase – up 18,103 – in weapon searches over the same period.
WASHINGTON — Monthly Medicare premiums for most beneficiaries will rise next year by $3.50, to $99.90, a much smaller increase than had been expected, the Obama administration said Thursday.
But that was a much smaller increase than in the previous month, a possible sign that businesses are running out of hours to cut: next, they may have to resort to layoffs on a larger scale.
Federal data show a large spike since the recession in the share of workers reporting no change in wages, but a much smaller increase in workers reporting wage cuts, according to an analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
By comparison, the unemployment rate for all workers, skilled and unskilled, averaged 6percentt last year, a much smaller increase from the low point of joblessness around 4percentt for 2000, and well below the 7.8percentt jobless-rate peak of the early 90's.
