51.   Fruit and poultry prices also increased.

52.   Further deceleration is expected, with domestic demand too sluggish to tolerate significant price increases even if the German economy emerges from its nine-month slump.

53.   Further boosting profits was an across-the-board price increases by drug companies, which usually come in the second quarter, LaVin said.

54.   Gotbaum differs with investors who recently drove up interest rates on long-term credit in a conviction that larger price increases are about to appear.

55.   He noted that other labor-intensive areas, such as medical care, are also seeing steady price increases.

56.   He said the rising prices for fossils increase illegal collecting and theft from collections.

57.   He said that since the release, home heating oil prices have increased.

58.   Hogan was, however, surprised prices increased this much this early in the season.

59.   Housing prices have been increasing faster than general inflation for several years, and they accelerated in recent months to their fastest real rate of gain in decades.

60.   If crude prices increase, he said, those margins will simply shrink without inflating retail gas prices.