21.   A weakening yen pushes prices higher by making imports more expensive.

22.   A stronger dollar also helped push bonds higher by dampening speculation that international investors would abandon U.S. financial markets, traders and investors said.

23.   Accelerating demand could also push prices higher, ending a period of little inflationary pressure.

24.   Accelerating inflation is pushing salaries higher, because wage negotiations are based on an annual comparison of inflation rates.

25.   Acindar Industria Argentina de Aceros SA and other steelmakers led the rally, pushed higher by strong year-end industrial output.

26.   After lagging main Swiss rival Winterthur Insurance Co. this year, Zurich shares will push higher on the strength of the Scudder purchase, investors said.

27.   After weeks of seesaw trading, jittery investors pushed prices higher for the second consecutive session.

28.   Brickman cited the strength of the economy and the likelihood that wages would rise in coming months, threatening to push inflation higher, as his main concerns.

29.   By pushing interest rates higher at the slightest hint of an inflation threat, traders helped dampen business activity and lessen the likelihood of accelerating prices.

30.   By pushing interest rates higher at the slightest hint of an inflation threat, traders have helped dampen business activity and lessen the likelihood that prices increases will accelerate.