61.   Some who have been fired have sent their families back to India to reduce living costs while they search for other jobs.

62.   The economic boom and rising living costs makes a minimum wage necessary to prevent private sector workers from being exploited, according to MTUC officials.

63.   The consulting firm, which specializes in travel and living costs, studied gas prices in the second quarter of this year.

64.   The government Tuesday ordered the army to prevent labor trade unions from staging nation-wide demonstrations to protest soaring living costs.

65.   The other big election issue is living costs.

66.   The newspaper Kompas reported that the workers wanted salary raises to meet rising living costs.

67.   The reforms also have increased insecurity among average Poles by introducing unemployment and raising living costs.

68.   To most ordinary Zimbabweans, struggling to meet record increases in living costs under the economic reforms, there seems no alternative to Mugabe.

69.   Iraq denied the charges, while the Jordanian opposition said the unrest was a spontaneous protest against the sharp rise in living costs.

70.   But well-known political analyst Kwesi Pratt said the government needs to do more for ordinary Ghanaians, who face rising living costs.