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France heightened surveillance of potential attackers and boosted to about 10,000 the number of troops patrolling sensitive sites after Islamist militants killed 17 people in January in attacks on the offices of the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly and a Jewish food shop.

After Sandy, its borrowing limit was boosted to about $30 billion, of which it has to date used $25 billion.

The rate for children younger than 4 was recently boosted to about $680 a month, which is still hundreds of dollars below the estimated costs for foster parents.

Knight signed a five-year, $1.25 million contract, and, with incentives, his salary will be boosted to $400,000 a year, about $100,000 less than the average of other coaches in the Big 12 Conference.

In particular, we shall develop a method that uses boosting to simultaneously utilise information about the complete utterance, together with an estimate about the phonetic segmentation.

Performance bonuses could boost the value to about $44 million.

The African Union will take charge of the force next month, boosting the force to about 3,600.

This was, in turn, fed into Y-12, which boosted it to about 89%, sufficient for nuclear weapons.

"With an appropriately sized battery you can boost it from 20% to about 60 or 70% self-sufficiency," he says.

Joubert, who came to Sierra Leone in 1995 with the now defunct South African mercenary outfit Executive Outcomes, said the company planned to raise $1bn on top of a $300m expansion programme, and boost production to about 500kg of gemstones annually.

By lining pipes with stainless steel, Suez is able to harness between four and eight degrees of that warmth and boost it to about 50C for use in space heaters or as hot water.