11.   That may be helped by the fact that prices are no longer escalating the way they did the last few years.

12.   The cable industry is approaching the new era carefully for fear that prices will sharply escalate.

13.   The prices escalate quickly from there.

14.   They will not be competing for programmers whose prices are escalating rapidly and will have sufficient time to test their efforts.

15.   When oil prices escalated, industrial customers and electric utilities would often switch to natural gas as a cheaper, cleaner-burning alternative.

16.   But with more networks competing for programming, prices have escalated.

17.   Prices are escalating too.