But the remarkable increase in power of off-the-shelf computer systems, coupled with the decline of military and Government spending after the cold war, has shrunk the market.

But that increase in values, coupled with last year's Federal whole herd buyout aimed at reducing a national milk surplus, eliminated many dairy farmers.

An overall increase in the number of stores, coupled with lower-than-planned revenues, resulted in higher inventory and debt levels.

The increase in population, coupled with a growing wealth, may signal political and social change.

She said the $132-per-month increase, coupled with a 6 percent rise when her two-year lease is renewed this fall, would increase her total rent by nearly half.

The Assembly's proposed $300 million increase, coupled with governor's proposal, would bring the total education increase next year to $790 million.

Again an increase in temperature, now coupled with an addition of alcohol to the mobile phase, drastically decreases the amount of the absorbed surfactant.

This increase, coupled with a decline of one million barrels a day in domestic production, goes a long way toward explaining why oil imports have risen.

Then serendipity struck: the recent increase in oil prices, coupled with an onslaught of bone-chilling temperatures, ushered a wave of customers his way.

This modest increase, coupled with transitional arrangements announced in the budget, will be of considerable benefit to business.