Four years in a row, Mr. Smith's office has applied and been rejected for a federal grant, to resettle families from the 550 apartments in Mulford Gardens, which, built in the late 1930's, is one of the oldest housing projects in the country and has become increasingly run down and costly to maintain.
The ban has increasingly appeared to run counter to prevailing politics in the state, with Massachusetts becoming the first state to legalise gay marriage in 2004.
At the same time, as Amis has increasingly seemed to run aground as a fiction writer, he has made a habit of wading, often ill-advisedly, into political debates.
With the Mets struggling to win and score the last two years, Piazza has increasingly tried to hit home runs and drive in runs rather than focusing on hitting his line drives.
Wheeler, in his abbreviated rookie season with the Mets, has put together a solid 7-3 record with a 3.66 earned run average and has increasingly looked to be in command of the pitches he is throwing.
— Mr. Bloomberg, a multibillionaire unafraid to spend vast sums achieving his political goals, has increasingly fueled speculation that he will run, by doing things like retooling the Web site he used for his mayoral campaigns to promote his record in the public and private sectors.
Without much in the way of its own content and little development last year, AltaVista, unlike other search engines and directories such as Yahoo! and Lycos (part-owned by CMGI), has increasingly looked like an also-ran.
Its review of this part of Mr. Lazio's housing record is a flat-out distortion meant to confuse viewers about Mr. Lazio's record in the House at a time when he has increasingly cited it to justify his run for the Senate.
But with the Obama Administration running scared from the Tea Party backlash, Jackson has increasingly been left out to dry.
And Nevada has increasingly become blue-leaning.
