1.   Government engineers bought sub-standard equipment, inflated the price, and pocketed the difference.

2.   Hotels often inflate prices at particular times of the year.

3.   So prices are inflated and will remain so until there is a steady flow of imported goods.

4.   Speculators, however, repeatedly inflated the price enormously within days or weeks of release.

5.   Economists warn that rapid economic growth could inflate prices.

6.   The company was acting in collusion with manufacturers to inflate prices.

7.   And direct sales cut out the multiple intermediaries who help inflate prices.

8.   And several senators from Western states suggested that long-term power contracts signed when prices soared last year could be ripped up if evidence shows that Enron artificially inflated prices.

9.   At a press conference today, Morgenthau said the trash haulers used intimidation to inflate prices and stifle competition.

10.   Because overly optimistic projections inflate stock prices, new stocks are doomed to underperform the overall market when they disappoint.