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JPMorgan Chase's team of in-house lobbyists spent $3.3 million, a slight uptick over last year.

And while unemployment was still high at 9.7% in the fourth quarter, and a slight uptick over the prior quarter, it was still near its lowest point since early 2012, while employment was at its highest level since August 2011.

In the 18- to 49-year-old demographic highly favored by advertisers, ABC, CBS and NBC each recorded double-digit declines, while Fox showed a slight uptick of 2percentt over last year, according to Nielsen Media Research.

That is a slight uptick from 2009, when the over-50 audience bought 19 percent of the total tickets sold.

There has also been a slight uptick in contract prices over the past five months.

Interestingly, text messaging has had a slight uptick in its usage over last year — showing that some legacy services have a lot of staying power; a full 75% of all mobile consumers sent SMS messages last quarter.

The funding allowed the bureau to step up its adverting and public relations efforts in 2010, even though the economy was less than robust, with just a slight uptick in visitor traffic over 2009.

At least three N.H.L. players have sustained concussions this season as a result of fighting, and Commissioner Gary Bettman has acknowledged that concussions from fighting are one reason for a slight uptick in reported brain injuries this year over years past.

It's not clear if the FBI will define these deaths as "felonious killings," or in other words intentional killings, but the data does suggest there will be a slight uptick in line-of-duty deaths over last year.

The Boston Consulting Group, which has looked at the slight uptick in the nation's manufacturing employment over the last two years, argues that rising wages in China, high transportation costs and falling United States energy costs should bring more manufacturing back home.

In the healthcare sector, stent makers may see a slight uptick Tuesday on after a study published over the weekend suggested that drug-eluting stents made by medical device makers such as Johnson & Johnson and Boston Scientific may not lead to an increased risk of blood clots.