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Although that relatively minor shortfall poses no real risk of setting off inflation, it could portend bigger problems for the bank should it step up its bond purchases to anything close to the levels many economists now say might be necessary to hold the euro currency union together.

In an unusual twist, the Microsoft Corporation is among a dozen or so smaller players in the I.M. market that decry what they consider to be AOL's market-dominating behavior in instant messaging, and they are demanding that it step up efforts to make its system interact with theirs.

Should it step up the pace and grow even larger through mergers and acquisitions?

Peugeot hopes the deal will help it step up expansion in lucrative new markets as Europe's car market struggles.

"That's a wonderful example of the opportunity that is before us, if we seize it, step up and actually promote R&D," says Lewis, who is also a principal investigator at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, an effort led by Caltech in partnership with Lawrence Berkeley National Lab to produce clean solar fuels.

Our restaurants are open from 10 a.m. until 8 p.m. Once private equity company Eagle Merchant Partners got involved in 2015, how did it step up expansion?

Each time he took a step towards Iran, it stepped up its nuclear work.

The government, finally, must stop neglecting worker safety issues, even as it steps up enforcement.

The Pentagon has said it stepped up surveillance, intelligence and reconnaissance efforts, at Baghdad's request.

It stepped up efforts on the mainland to enforce a public silence before the 20th anniversary.

It stepped up air strikes in Iraq and Syria, killing many Islamic militants but also hundreds of civilians.