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Nonetheless, it seems likely that the growing importance of the stock market to the retirement plans of middle-class Americans has translated into stepped-up coverage of business news and a greater willingness on the part of mainstream news outlets--daily newspapers and network television--to showcase pieces on market turmoil.
As the taunter was an American, why is he using the Briticism stepped-up shoes ? Admittedly, its meaning is transparent, but Americans do not use expressions like stepped-up shoes .
The top of the LAT front page features a large photo-and-graphic box addressing the stepped-up rate of deportations by the INS of illegal immigrants--last year about 111,000, an increase of about 60 percent over the year before.
I found law school discussions concerning the concept of "basis" or "stepped-up basis" to be about as easy to follow as the rule against perpetuities.
The Times points out that Russia's technical assistance raises fears of a stepped-up arms race between India and Pakistan, against whom India has fought three wars, and which has just tested a nuclear-capable missile of its own.