11.   From Indonesia to Korea, weakening currencies have inflated the cost of repaying foreign debts and left some banks hard pressed to raise money.

12.   He disputed the charge that the program is artificially inflating consumer costs for peanut products while farmers are getting rich.

13.   He said a number of environmental issues dealt with in the bids that sharply inflated the cost are not necessary.

14.   Higher interest rates inflate borrowing costs for companies.

15.   Illegal insider trading costs investors millions of dollars a year by inflating the cost of mergers and acquisitions, according to a Harvard Business School study.

16.   In one Merck-Medco case, the plaintiffs also claimed that the company inflated drug costs for some customers.

17.   It inflates the cost of supporting older unemployed people, and deflects governments from searching for better solutions for their plight.

18.   It reflects growing concern that tumbling currencies have inflated repayment costs for corporate Asia to crippling levels.

19.   Northeast Utilities is inflating the costs of dealing with the outage of its Millstone nuclear power plant, the report says that.