71.   And specialty coffee retailer Starbucks Corp. this week raised prices for a second time this year.

72.   And manufacturers see little to gain by parading before Wall Street their current inability to raise prices in a minimum-inflation climate.

73.   And newspapers have been hit hard as newsprint prices have reached all-time highs, forcing papers to raise prices and tighten newsholes.

74.   And newspapers are sometimes trimming features while raising prices to make up for higher newsprint costs.

75.   And Peterson warned his clients, who all still have Nine West shoes marked down, not to acquiesce to company demands that they raise prices.

76.   And predation would only pay off if the survivor could and did raise prices enough afterward to make up the enormous losses of the fight.

77.   And it almost certainly will keep Airbus as a customer in the future, if only to keep Boeing from raising prices.

78.   And since wages figure prominently in the cost of most products, rising wages inevitably force companies to cover the cost by raising prices.

79.   And that, they note, will raise prices at the grocery store.

80.   And raise the price they did.