61.   Similarly, the shoe industry is not expected to pass along all the cost increase.

62.   Small employers will see the biggest cost increases during the next few months because they have fewer workers to spread the risk, experts say.

63.   So far, employment cost increases have remained remarkably restrained despite the drop in unemployment.

64.   Still, Richard Thalheimer, the founder and chairman of the Sharper Image, admits the postage and paper cost increases are challenges that need to be overcome.

65.   That indicated that cost increases were still accelerating.

66.   The bank said profit rose due to growth in interest income and the limiting of cost increases.

67.   The company cited a steep cost increase in plastic resin, a key raw material, and weak consumer spending.

68.   The cost increases do not directly affect the prices paid by large established mailers, which usually negotiate their own contracts with the delivery companies.

69.   The cost increases of nearly every type of health plan have fallen drastically.

70.   The changes would impose no new cost increases on Medicare beneficiaries, the president said.