Track management considered the November date would allow for cooler, more comfortable weather for fans, who had increasingly voiced concerns about the weather.

Evangelicals began deserting the Democrats in droves, lured by the social and fiscal conservatism increasingly voiced by Republicans.

Banking regulators have increasingly voiced concerns about the loosening of lending practices by subprime lenders.

Since 1995, when Tim Robbins persuaded stars like Bruce Springsteen and Steve Earle to contribute to an album inspired by his film "Dead Man Walking," musicians have increasingly voiced their views on the death penalty and the related issues of prison reform and criminal justice.

Russian officials had increasingly voiced concerns about the economic costs of curtailing such emissions, which come mainly from burning fossil fuels.

As the willing and the capable have been prodded off public assistance, New York City officials say, they have left behind peers hobbled by addiction, disability and AIDS, a complaint that is increasingly voiced by welfare administrators across the country.

The offer represents a major concession to public shareholders, who have increasingly voiced concern about selling their shares to private equity firms only to watch the new owners reap large profits by flipping the companies a few years later, and in some cases a few months.

Mr. Zhu was eager to counter the increasingly voiced worry that large-scale deficit spending, which the government has used to prop up growth through recent tough years, might endanger stability.

World leaders have increasingly voiced their resistance to an invasion of Iraq, and Mr. Straw's comments served as another setback to Mr. Bush's efforts to build a coalition to oust Mr. Hussein.

But the appropriations committees, which take the guidance and use it to pay for real things like submarines and low-cost housing subsidies and school lunch programs, have increasingly voiced concern that the budgets are unrealistic.