41.   And while its labor costs can be held in check, the company says its technology costs will not go through the roof.

42.   And until the Larry Bird exemption is removed, they claim that labor costs will continue to spiral out of control.

43.   And while cheap imports would keep inflation in check, they could hurt U.S. corporate results, especially if U.S. labor costs continue to rise.

44.   And with the Hungarian government clamping down on wage increases, it did not seem likely that labor costs would rise very much any time soon.

45.   And with the slowdown in hiring, labor costs -- a key concern of the Fed -- should moderate.

46.   Annable recently pointed out in The Wall Street Journal that the Midwest has experienced jobless rates even lower than the national level without any resulting surge in labor costs.

47.   Another measure of labor costs, however, is not as promising.

48.   As a result of a shortage of public money, public employers are determined to reduce non-wage labor costs, which are among the highest in the world.

49.   As a result, to stay in business, US sewing shops had to lower prices, which meant lowering labor costs.

50.   As a labor costs remain in check, businesses are able to absorb higher material and production costs without passing them onto their customers by investing in technology.