Short-term numbers show that prices are rising, but we all know that has to do with oil prices and that's a one-time increase.

And then, presumably, this is not a one-time, nonrecurring increase, but will staircase upward by some amount each year for several years.

Traders dismissed the number as having been distorted by big, probably temporary, one-time increases for gasoline, vegetables and tobacco.

He reiterated that more saving and investment would yield only a one-time increase in gross domestic product.

The plan would give states, which are struggling with budget shortfalls, a one-time increase in the federal share of Medicaid payments, amounting to $10 billion.

Second, much of this recent increase reflected commissions and performance-related pay in financial services jobs - one-time increases rather than permanent additions to compensation.

But a significant part of that 4.3 percent revenue gain resulted from a one-time increase in the company's sales.

The board also refused a one-time increase for apartments with very low rents.

Most of the rise, though, came from one-time increases in items like cigarette prices and rent, rather than broad-based price increases.

The proposals could provide a one-time increase in federal tax revenues.