But it was the first time that an Israeli official raised the issue in public.

Her business is down 40 percent, she said, since officials raised weekend beach prices last year, from $5 to $8 a person a day.

The public television system needs nearly $1.7 billion for the upgrade, officials said, but has so far raised less than half of that.

The officials raised many questions for the federal government.

In Mississippi alone, officials raised the official count of the dead to at least 100.

In Washington County, officials raised property taxes about 52 percent over the last three years.

Another question local officials raised in the first days after the release of the commission's report concerned women's access to abortion.

It was hardly the first time that officials had raised questions about the American approach in Iraq.

But after conferring for a moment, the officials nodded and raised their arms.

Some officials of the agency that runs the city shelters also raised objections.