The deficit with China rose to $49.7 billion from $39.5 billion.

Over the last year, the deficit with countries using the euro rose 11 percent, less than the overall increase, to almost $90 billion.

The deficit with Mexico rose to $1.70 billion from $1.39 billion.

The deficit rose beyond the $200-billion-a-year level after the 1981-82 recession, and the cry went up for reform.

The £250 deficit of the previous season had risen to more than £1,100.

Either way, the deficit will eventually rise again, to large numbers, early next century.

Then, it said, the deficit would rise again, to $182 billion in 1997.

The deficit might rise by, say, $10 billion from one year to the next.

Last year alone, the deficit with China rose 43 percent, and that was not a fluke.

Official forecasts show the deficit rising again in the next two years if nothing is done.