A mere 15% increase would total some $10 trillion, overwhelming the deficit stupidities emanating from Washington.
Wage increases would total 8 percent over the next three years, plus a retroactive payment of $1,500 for the past year, in which the nurses have been working without a contract.
The increase would raise the average homeowner's total real property tax bill by less than 4percentt, or about $226.
United Illuminating, the state's second largest distributor of electricity, applied last Monday to the State Department of Public Utility Control for rate increases that would total almost 9percentt and produce an extra $60 million in revenue through 2009.
The increase, totaling $114 billion, would add one percentage point to American economic growth -- enough to turn a weak recovery into a strong one -- if the rise in output were at home, not abroad.
Using statistical models that factored in price increases in theater subscription packages and single-ticket sales, the authors found that even a 20percentt price increase would reduce total attendance by only 2percentt.
But an analysis of its data suggests that the increase, in total, would be about 4percentt.
But the city's ratepayer advocate said monthly bills for many of those customers would jump about $4 in the first year; the five-year cumulative total increase would be about $12.
For a 10-year-old, increasing the concentration of radon breathed by a factor of five would therefore increase the total of high LET equivalent dose by about 1.8 fold, whilst a 10-fold radon increase would increase the high LET total by 2.8 fold.
Adding more time for familiarization with the treadmill might have improved reliability, but it would also increase the subjects' total walking time and could lead to fatigue especially for the case subjects.
