61.   And if fewer purchases at the concession stand mean a theater has to raise ticket prices, so be it.

62.   And most teams have raised ticket prices faster than the Consumer Price Index the last few years.

63.   And Congress may simply decide to raise cigarette prices through taxes, though that option is hardly its first choice.

64.   And Congress, in another round of budget-cutting, could cut back on Joint Strike Fighter purchases, raising the price for each plane.

65.   And in a time of low inflation and consumer fickleness, U.S. companies can no longer raise profits by routinely raising prices.

66.   And even the operating profit profit came at the expense of much slower sales growth, as Amazon raised book prices substantially.

67.   And in the case of tobacco, the plaintiffs justified the vast sum by saying that the companies could afford it by raising the price of cigarettes.

68.   And foreign competition has made it much harder for companies to raise prices to cover inefficiencies.

69.   And it would ease concerns cited by Fed policymakers of higher inflation induced by companies raising prices to cover wage increases.

70.   And some department stores seem to be raising prices.