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For the second quarter in a row, IDC raised its forecast for the number of tablets that will be shipped in 2011: previously it raised it by 17% from 53.5m to 62.5m, and now it has raised it again by 1% to 63.3m - even though shipments in the third quarter fell 5% short of its earlier 19.2m forecast.

This time, while Germany has lowered its energy savings obligations target, the UK has raised it by 7%.

They quickly raised it by $500,000 to win it away from a rival.

After all but promising to freeze the city's congestion charge for a decade in 2003, he raised it by 60% this year.

Then, in the first week of December, Ms. Palumbo said, four buyers offered the asking price, and one raised it by $11,000.

Hainer said Adidas would lift its marketing budget from 13%to14%4% of sales in 2015, raising it by up to €200m (£159m).

And next year we'll raise it by another 25%.

It had been expected to raise it by only a quarter of a point.

Fidesz wants to raise it by a further HUF 300 billion.

Together, the glaciers hold enough water to raise it by several feet.