Father's promised me a hefty increase in my own allowance.

Two important measures of the economic condition reported hefty increases last week.

The data reflected hefty increases in the prices of clothing and gasoline.

Companies have seen hefty increases in their costs over the past year and are trying to pass them on to their customers.

The defense budget is already nearly $310 billion a year, with hefty increases planned in the years ahead.

The hefty increase for utilities still recovered barely half the ground lost in November.

They credit the soaring housing market for a hefty increase in business.

A second piece of upbeat news today was another hefty increase in consumer confidence.

But to qualify for the hefty increases anticipated in the current formula, they would have to keep working until age 72.

That would mean a hefty increase over the 4.4 percent rise in consumer prices for the whole of 1988.