1.   Middlesbrough Council has made no allowances for cost inflation and will not increase its contribution towards concessionary fares for pensioners.

2.   Higher borrowing costs help keep inflation from accelerating, a goal Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan and other officials often cite as their top priority.

3.   Medical cost inflation has not been as low over the last few years as steady premiums seemed to indicate.

4.   On top of artistic inadequacy it has a problem of cost inflation on a truly epic scale.

5.   Opponents of the California ballot measures claim the plans would mean a return to double-digit health cost inflation.

6.   Small businesses, which lack the bargaining power to demand cut-rate health insurance premiums, are already suffering from a rise in health cost inflation, Thorpe found.

7.   Time may even help to solve the health-care crisis -- cost inflation has already slowed remarkably.

8.   With current pressures to limit health care cost inflation, it remains to be seen how widely used the newest technologies will become.