Besides, the graying population was increasing the ranks of doting grandparents.
The program is part of the College of Engineering's longstanding commitment to increasing the ranks of women in STEM fields.
Democratic senators, led by Charles E. Schumer of New York, want to increase federal financing of new medical residency slots, with an eye to increasing the ranks of primary care doctors.
For example, e-mail, word processors, answering machines and other modern office technologies are cutting jobs for secretaries but increasing the ranks of programmers.
Their numbers in Congress will grow in January with newly elected conservatives, significantly increasing the ranks of House Republicans who have publicly said they would consider impeaching Mr. Obama.
In turn, Beijing has sent aid, increasing the ranks of Chinese government-sponsored doctors, building hospitals and sending equipment and medicines.
The bill will expand the number of volunteer slots to 250,000 from 75,000, increasing the ranks of the existing AmeriCorps program and establishing new cadres of volunteers focused on health care, education, renewable energy and veterans.
By repealing the individual mandate without replacing it with any alternative health-insurance scheme, this proposal would have a first-order effect of increasing the ranks of the uninsured by thirteen million people during the coming decade.
There has been quite a bit of thinking on this subject, and while none of the alternatives to the mandate appear to be as effective at increasing the ranks of the insured, there are other options.
His campaign is better funded, and, as the exit polls from New Hampshire suggest, the Republican electorate as a whole may have moved to the right since 2012, increasing the ranks of Cruz's natural constituency.
