Initially, the union asked for an 8 percent across-the-board increase in each year of a two-year contract.

As for the seasonal profit maker, the holiday party, managers report an across-the-board increase this season.

"We found an across-the-board increase in dowry demand," she said.

The housing committee agreed the across-the-board increases on Thursday.

While there has not been an across-the-board increase since 1997, fares have regularly risen on individual routes.

The union went on strike to back demands for a 30 percent across-the-board increase, a figure that it later reduced to 27 percent.

The Bill would only prevent an across-the-board increase to all federal employees' pay.

First of all, I am not advocating any general across-the-board increases.

But even with the across-the-board increases, there are still wide variations in price.

So let us agree that what we are discussing now is a 2% across-the-board increase.