21.   Costs are soaring far above expectations.

22.   Costs have soared even though road deaths have leveled off.

23.   Costs soared.

24.   Costs have soared for new, so-called life-style drugs, notably Viagra, an impotence medicine, auto executives said.

25.   Costs have soared in recent months as the company raced competitors to deliver new digital video, telephony and Internet services.

26.   Domestic interest rates costs jumped amid mounting concern overseas borrowing costs will soar for debt-ridden Korean companies.

27.   Energy and fertilizer costs are soaring.

28.   Electricity generation is characterized by low marginal costs of production until plants are near capacity, at which point marginal production costs soar.

29.   Even as station costs have soared, however, its capabilities have been steadily downsized.

30.   EDS has served up three straight quarters of falling earnings as costs soar.