Both have reported healthy increases in inquiries about mediation as a result.

Sales tax revenue showed healthy increases in most Southeast states.

Now it is down to 18,000 riders a day, a healthy increase, but still a drop in the bucket.

These same executives also got healthy increases in their base salaries and bonuses.

But they also said the gains reflected a healthy increase in consumer spending.

With the nation at war, everyone expected a healthy but reasonable increase in next year's defense budget.

But the reduction would have been much more severe without a healthy increase in foreign tourism, which actually rose 6.3 percent to 6.1 million visitors.

The first quarter's strong profits and the lower corporate rates under the new tax law should have added up to healthy increases, he says.

Traders expect this week's report, issued tomorrow, to show another healthy increase.

"What is especially interesting, given the economy, is that some of them are showing a healthy increase in growth."