Continuing increases in autism reported to California's developmental services system.

But the broadly based increase reported today appeared to reduce such fears.

With the four-tenths of a percent increase reported yesterday, that prediction will be difficult to reach.

That was less than recent yearly increases reported since 1978, when newsrooms were only 3.95 percent minority.

The 25 percent contraction in the November trade deficit matched almost exactly the increase reported last month for October.

The increase last December was revised downward, from the 1.9 percent originally reported.

An increase reported earlier yesterday in weekly jobless claims data added to a growing belief that the economic slowdown was under way.

They were revised downward from the six-tenths of 1 percent and five-tenths increases reported last month.

Recent decades have seen significant increases in the numbers of offences of violence reported to, and recorded by, the police.

The substantial increase in casualties reported Tuesday, and the still scanty information, suggested that more bodies might still be found.