21.   Bond traders took this to mean that an interest-rate reduction was less likely, sending bond prices down, and stocks dropped shortly afterward.

22.   A number of fans have bought the entirely fallacious theory that the owners are fighting this battle to keep ticket prices down.

23.   Aetna wants to placate worried investors who have driven its stock price down, leading to the replacement of its chief executive late last month.

24.   Advocates say the arrangement will assure competition for all classes of consumers and drive prices down.

25.   But Chevy had to cut corners somewhere to keep the price down, and this was the most likely place.

26.   But he said the sponsors help keep ticket prices down and they have gilded the payoff to the colleges.

27.   But I believe competition will eventually drive the price down.

28.   But so many did so that the selling overwhelmed the market, and sent prices down even further.

29.   But the houses were subsidized by local sovereigns, who kept ticket prices down and allowed a broad bourgeois public to attend performances regularly.

30.   But with at least five other companies poised to enter the market, the competition and the inevitable economies of increasingly large-scale production should drive the prices down fast.