51.   Companies could not raise wages to attract workers and they offered company-sponsored health insurance.

52.   Companies had also raised prices in anticipation of a currency convertibility plan that then-President Abadala Bucaram planned to implement in July.

53.   Companies seldom raise a dividend if they think they might be forced to reduce it later.

54.   Companies then raise prices to maintain their profit margins.

55.   Companies also can raise a little money in the process, as UP is doing.

56.   Consumers would spend more freely once confidence returned, interest rates and unemployment fell and well-off companies raised wages, he said.

57.   Court said that eliminating competition on city property could allow soft-drink companies to raise prices.

58.   Companies have raised money by selling securities tied to their stakes in other ventures in a variety of ways.

59.   Companies would raise prices to pay for the higher wages.

60.   Congressional critics warn that e-rate collections will cause long-distance companies to raise their rates.