But the size of the increase came as a surprise.
Moreover, the size of the increase in capital requirements can impose a severe financial burden.
He gave no indication, however, of the size of the increase and the period it would cover.
The size of the increase in demand that has been detected depended on who was doing the measuring.
The Reagan administration, which has been strongly supportive of Israel, did not balk at the size of the increase.
The first, of course, is the size of the increase itself, which is unprecedented.
Nevertheless, the size of the increase took its experts by surprise - days ago the Halifax said it was anticipating an increase of less than 1percentnt.
The size of the increase heightened the chance that he would veto it, as he did a 15.4percentt increase last fall.
Jack Freund, executive vice president of the Rent Stabilization Association, the city's largest landlord group, defended the size of the increase being sought.
"But," Mr. Miller added, "I believe the median somewhat overstates the size of the increase, since we had a falloff in the sale of smaller apartments.
But we only tested soups, so we wouldn't be able to predict the absolute size of the increase".
