21.   Each company boosted output at its North American car and truck plants during the period.

22.   Escondida also is proceeding as scheduled with other efforts to boost output, including improving current production facilities.

23.   Everyone has an opinion about interest rates, which tend to fall as central banks try to boost the output of goods and services and rise amid greater inflation.

24.   --Fearing recession, Clinton urges OPEC to boost output.

25.   General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. are cutting North American vehicle production in the first quarter, while Chrysler Corp. is boosting output.

26.   Given the precarious nature of the oil-price rise, he argues, if OPEC ministers decided to boost output they would send prices crashing temporarily.

27.   GM, which controls about a third of the domestic auto market, is the only Detroit automaker to boost output this quarter.

28.   Frigid weather this winter fueled robust demand for heating oil, keeping refiners from boosting gasoline output in preparation for peak summer demand.

29.   Greenspan restated his faith in the ability of new technologies to boost worker output.

30.   GM has boosted output at the Oshawa, Ontario, plant to help make up some of the lost production from Pontiac, especially extended-cab models.