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WASHINGTON — Companies placed slightly more orders in August for long-lasting manufactured goods, stepping up demand for cars, trucks and machinery.

WASHINGTON — As President Obama intensifies his campaign for a broad overhaul of the nation's immigration system, advocates for America's 11 million illegal immigrants are stepping up demands that he stop what has become one of the most aggressive and efficient efforts in decades to round up and deport people who are in the United States unlawfully.

The fiasco over the West Coast franchise has hardly helped the government's reputation and it has emboldened campaigners opposed to the HS2 high speed rail project who are stepping up demands for a rethink.

Damascus has stepped up demands for financial support to ease the burden.

David Cameron stepped up demands for a comprehensive inquiry into the government lobbying row today.

The people of Oxfordshire and the Chilterns have stepped up demands for compensation and longer tunnels.

The Americans stepped up demands that Mr Sheikh be extradited on terror charges, in connection with the kidnapping of an American in India.

Hyundai's government-led creditors in recent weeks have stepped up demands for a revamping in an attempt to stamp out such practices.

Mrs. del Ponte, who succeeded Mrs. Arbour, has stepped up demands on NATO members for intelligence support and military action against suspected war criminals in the Balkans.

Today, Arabs stepped up demands for a punitive resolution against Israel that could authorize sanctions and the dispatch of an international monitoring force, essentially to protect the Palestinians.

With intervention yielding little effect, many in the Japanese government have stepped up demands that the Bank of Japan lower rates and buy more government bonds, steps that would put downward pressure on the currency.