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• n  a transaction in the stock market at a price above the price of the preceding transaction

• Despite a recent small uptick in violent crime, most Americans are still by and large safer than they were in the crack-fueled early 1990s.
• Counselors at Stanford University have observed an uptick in women who had "regretted sex" while drunk.
• And with the public so soured on the Republican in the White House, and so many other trends working against them, including an uptick in the percentage of Americans identifying .

• downtick

News & Articles

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• Study: Heroin Abuse Increase May Be Due to Prescription Painkiller Crackdown
  Uptick shown after states begin crackdown on prescription drugs.
  June 12, 2013 - US News & World Report
• Knoxville-area transit program receives state environmental award
  The recent uptick in efforts to improve the environment in the Knoxville area has not gone unnoticed — not by a long shot.
  June 12, 2013 - Knoxville News Sentinel
• Survey: CEOs Feel Slightly Better About U.S. Economy
  American bigwigs expect an uptick in sales and hiring in the next six months. CEOs feel slightly stronger about the American economy than they did last year, though they're aware of the long road ahead, finds the Business Round Roundtable’s second quarter 2013 CEO Economic Outlook Survey . The survey, a composite index of CEOs' expectations for the next six months, covers issues such as sales ...
  June 12, 2013 - Inc Magazine

Quotes

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• Sergio Marchionne in USA Today
  There has already been an uptick in customer traffic in our dealerships in the first quarter, and we are confident that sales will continue to increase as we launch new products in the second quarter,Marchionne said.
• Ben Affleck in FOXNews
  I'm really glad that more people are paying more attention to (Congo) now but I'm really saddened that it's taken this uptick in violence to make that happen,Affleck said. "My hope in being here is primarily to bring attention to the fact...
• William Caldwell in Forbes
  There is a recognition clearly that up in Diyala there has been an uptick in the violence,Caldwell said at a news conference in Baghdad.