A floating rate moves with market interest rates, rather than acting as a stimulant for broader increases.

In the long run, higher productivity should be good for the economy, leading to broad increases in wealth.

That could eventually translate into broad increases in income and health insurance coverage and a decline in poverty.

All told, Adena was a manifestation of a broad regional increase in the number and kind of artifacts devoted to spiritual needs.

Such inflows may mean broad increases in general stock levels.

The broad increases are intended to increase profitability.

It raised the bar expected by audiences and led to a broad increase in the quality of science fiction on television in the late 1990s.

A broad increase is partly contingent on the success of private talks between the Soviet Union and Israel.

Due to a pressing need the ships were rehabilitated and re-commissioned in 1994 as part of a broad increase in military funding.

Mr. Yeltsin told the crowd that broad increases in wages and pensions were coming.