11.   And it warns that the city may be underestimating the expenses it will face from rising health insurance costs, wage increases for municipal workers and lawsuits against it.

12.   Another industry hard hit by rising oil costs is freight transportation.

13.   Another way to alleviate rising costs is to regulate fees.

14.   As a result, the automakers could be facing a year of moderate growth and rising incentive costs.

15.   As elsewhere across rural Mexico, farmers in Perdiz and surrounding communities wrestle with sharply lower prices for their crops, rising costs of supplies and non-existent credit.

16.   Aside from the immediate problem of rising fuel costs, the company faces the prospect of falling ticket prices as competition within Japan heats up.

17.   Aside from the immediate problem of rising fuel costs, it faces the likely prospect of falling ticket prices as competition within Japan heats up.

18.   At the other end, PVC margins have been squeezed by rising raw material costs, such as ethylene.

19.   At home, they face rising operating costs.

20.   Banks are staggering under the weight of billions of dollars in bad loans, falling stock prices and rising borrowing costs.