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The acquisition would expand Aon’s capabilities in helping midsize businesses and is expected to increase earnings per share as soon as 2028, a person familiar with the matter said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

The number went up from 40,259 in the previous year - a 28% increase.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

That helps explain why a shallower Juan de Fuca slab beneath northern Oregon could increase peak ground shaking in populated areas.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

Carlos Baco, a 74-year-old government employee, hopes oil revenues will start flowing under the new deal, but said he hasn't felt the effects of the increase in oil production over the past few months.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

Multi-part performance in either the vocal or instrumental milieu is cognitively beneficial, and will increase a child’s musical competence.

From "Music and the Child" by Natalie Sarrazin

The union is demanding higher pay—1% to 3% raises for teachers, and 3% to 5% for so-called classified staff such as paraprofessionals, on top of cost-of-living increases, reports the Seattle Times.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

According to the paper, he is looking to plug a hole in public finances and shield individuals from direct tax increases.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Other Apple bundle plans are seeing price increases as well.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

Inflation has remained elevated for the sixth consecutive year, and many of Warsh’s colleagues have begun to press for interest-rate hikes to cool down price increases.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 27, 2026

The weather threatened to dull the elaborate fireworks display that Frank Millet had planned as a further boost for the exposition’s attendance, which despite steady week-to-week increases still lagged behind expectations.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

Boes said prices have moderately increased to offset the quality improvements.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

The trust said it was partly due to the unusually hot weather but also the result of increased surveying and monitoring in the county.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

Once a luxury food, increased competition between Thailand and Vietnam and improved transport links have helped cut prices and make the fruit more affordable.

From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026

That would have limited utilities’ liability for the fire but increased electric bills.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2026

As night came on—the eighth night of the monsoon—the winds increased, whining and howling around our hut as if seeking to pluck it from the earth.

From "Nectar in a Sieve" by Kamala Markandaya

"This experiment develops techniques to better characterize the fidelity of hard quantum states under noise, increasing confidence that the quantum computer is solving a computationally hard problem."

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

Once fully operational, the observatory is expected to vastly expand scientists’ inventory of planets outside our solar system, increasing it from about 6,300 planets to more than 100,000.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 30, 2026

While the exact cause of the collapse is unclear, climate change is causing glaciers to melt worldwide, increasing the risks of such disasters.

From Barron's ● Aug. 29, 2026

Despite previous tariffs increasing costs for manufacturers, car dealerships have absorbed the "lion's share" to date, according to Bernard Yaros, lead economist at Oxford Economics.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

The crowd evidently liked this from the buzzing cheer it sent up, increasing the din to an unbelievable level.

From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly