She added that the increase spurred speculation that the Federal Reserve Board would raise rates sooner rather than later.

The increase in disposable incomes of many people, it seems, has spurred a craze to collect crystal objects.

The expected increase has spurred several immigrants' rights groups in New York to step up citizenship drives.

For a while, it looked as if that increase in profits would spur the Dow Jones industrial average to a close above 3,400.

By the 18th century, an increase in stage coach traffic from Chester spurred the growth of the transportation of passengers and goods across the river.

Mr. Zecchini said it was important that these measures produce an increase in production to spur the economy.

The increases have spurred a series of anti-Government protests on university campuses in recent weeks.

Sharp increases in the price of a gallon of gasoline have often spurred presidential speechifying.

An overnight increase in cash corn prices spurred some hedge-type buying of corn futures by commercial grain dealers and processors, analysts said.

The school's rapid increase in enrollment and opening to undergraduate students over its first decade spurred major campus expansion.