31.   But his own energy tax will push up home heating bills and raise the price of petrol in a country that relies on road transport.

32.   This helped European capital to hold down real wages by raising prices.

33.   Firms reacted to the expansion of demand by raising prices, as well as expanding output, in order to try and raise profit margins.

34.   It raised input costs, thereby tending to reduce profitability and intensifying the pressure on industry to raise prices.

35.   All this buying has soaked up the supply and raised the prices of second homes in many areas.

36.   Almost recklessly, he began raising the price of his rare Lake bottles.

37.   Although the advertising controls were attractive, the total payment was too low to raise the price of cigarettes sufficiently to reduce teen-age smoking.

38.   Also, hospitals, strengthened by mergers, are raising prices.

39.   Also many refiners are using inventory practices that raise prices.

40.   American companies are driven mainly by fear that they will lose customers to competitors if they raise prices too much.