21.  Increased flexibility in scheduling.

22.  Increased handgun training for officers, with an emphasis on overall marksmanship rather than just meeting department standards.

23.  Increased health funding, and resources to the armed forces.

24.  Increased lending, stronger asset quality and acquisition of New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Connecticut banks boosted earnings.

25.  Increased partisanship.

26.  Increased profits.

27.  Increased salinity of the waterways where the bird fishes has damaged its food supply.

28.  Increases penalties and enforcement measures for employers who violate wage and hour laws.

29.  Increases penalties for employers who knowingly violate state occupational health and safety standards.

30.  Increasing demand, rising crude oil prices, diminished supplies and tougher clean air standards are to blame.