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   Escalation
   When a pension in payment is automatically increased at regular intervals by a fixed percentage rate or the increase of a specific index such as the Retail Price Index (RPI).
   Found op http://www.skandia.co.uk/glossary/index.html
   
   
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   escalation
   [n] - an increase to counteract a perceived discrepancy
   Found op http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definition.php?query=escalation
   
   
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   escalation
   noun an increase to counteract a perceived discrepancy; `higher wages caused an escalation of prices`; `there was a gradual escalation of hostilities`
   Found op http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=escalation
   
   
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   escalation
   (from the article `war`) ...similar. If individual states in competitive situations are governed by a short-term conception of their interests, acute conflicts between them ...
   Found op http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/e/43
   
   
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   Escalation
   1. Regarding the structure of tariffs, see tariff escalation. 2. In the context of a trade war, escalation refers to the increase in tariffs that occurs as countries retaliate again and again.
   Found op http://www-personal.umich.edu/~alandear/glossary/e.html
   
   
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   Escalation
   Escalation is the phenomenon of something getting more intense step by step, for example a quarrel, or, notably, a war between states possessing weapons of mass destruction. Compare to escalator, a device that lifts something to a higher level. While the word escalation was used as early as in 1938...
   Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation
   
   
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   Escalation
   [film] Escalation is a 1968 Italian film written and directed by Roberto Faenza and starring actor Gabriele Ferzetti. == Cast == ...
   Found op http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_(film)
   
   
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   escalation
   1) Increase 2) Step-up
   Found op http://www.mijnwoordenboek.nl/EN/crossword-dictionary/escalation/1
   
   

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