Mr. Kagan likened it to the way North Korea's invasion of South Korea suddenly spurred a big increase in the Truman administration's defense budget and in its willingness to confront the Soviet Union more aggressively, an approach that had been urged by Dean Acheson and Paul Nitze but resisted on budgetary and other grounds until war began.
$243 billion can be attributed to increases in the base budget of the Department of Defense while the increase in the Veterans Administration budget cost $54.2 billion.
The more combative talk reflects increased frustration in the administration with Iran, which American officials blame for part of the rising death toll in Iraq.
While the United States has long labeled Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism, the decision to single out the Guard reflects increased frustration in the administration with the slow pace of diplomatic negotiations over Tehran's nuclear program.
While he did not criticize the company in his public remarks, Mr. Obama's comments reflected increased frustration in the administration with BP's inability to plug the oil leak.
The increased neutropaenia, although readily managed, led to an increase in delays in the administration of the second cycle of therapy and reductions in the dose of dacarbazine in the highest dose cohorts.
The consequent increase in expenditures for administration, for the salaries and the donativa of the soldiers, for the maintenance of the Roman plebs, and for construction obliged the emperor to devalue the denarius in 194.
Spending on health, education and job programmes is expected to increase in the next Congress administration, analysts predicted, with the thrust of policy directed towards improving livelihoods in the rural heartland, and focusing on the economically deprived.
In the shorter duration, the trend was reduced to a nonsignificant 3% increase in the odds of administration of chemotherapy (OR=1.03, 95% CI=0.55 1.94).
She stood in front of a chart, which she used to illustrate how federal spending has increased in the Obama administration.
