1.   An American contractor has complained of what it calls intentional delays to inflate the bills.

2.   Consumer groups charge that the program inflates grocery bills while enriching a few wealthy growers.

3.   Lazar testified that Tsanas told him to make up the cost of the payoffs by inflating his bills to J.C. Penney.

4.   Mrs. Winikow told subordinates, according to their statements, to let vendors recoup their spending by inflating their bills to Orange and Rockland.

5.   No-fault also would remove incentives in California to inflate medical bills and exaggerate injuries, according to Stephen Carroll, a researcher at the RAND Institute for Civil Justice.

6.   Sela said the restaurant simply did not live up to expectations and asserted that Hindi inflated his bills.

7.   The PUC has also begun studying whether to inflate utility bills artificially to prop up the law.

8.   Delays in key construction projects could further inflate the bill.

9.   Moghalu refused to say by how much McCartan had inflated his bills.

10.   Natural gas prices have nearly quintupled since last year, inflating heating bills and cutting into business profits.