Full disclosure would increase investor confidence in the U.S., setting a free-market example to exchanges around the world.

Subsequent disclosures have increased that amount to $3.1 billion.

The disclosure of the possible new bid, made in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, increases the number of suitors for Decision Industries to three.

But it was clear that his disclosures had sharply increased the pressure on Iraq to show a radical change in coming days in its cooperation with the arms inspections or face early military attack.

The disclosure increases pressure on Mr Cameron over his close links to Mrs Brooks and the Murdoch empire.

Although the disclosures increased the pressure for an independent prosecutor, Attorney General Janet Reno, at her weekly news conference today, said she would not comment on a pending investigation.

The fresh disclosures will increase the already considerable pressure on the university to halt the sale plan.

Democrats said Mr. Tauzin's disclosure would simply increase public confusion.

But recent disclosures about Iraq's nuclear weapons program have increased alarm among many experts about North Korea.

Officials said the disclosures increased the likelihood that doctors would make decisions in the best interests of patients, without regard to the doctors' financial interests.