1.   Fuel prices are escalating.

2.   And as the price of winning escalates, the reality of losing sends payrolls plummeting.

3.   As money has poured into REITs, real estate prices have escalated, making it harder to produce the kind of double-digit returns Wall Street demands.

4.   At conventional resorts, those prices can quickly escalate if one is paying a la carte for every Coca Cola and each hour-long sailboat rental.

5.   A booming economy has increased the demand for homes and prices have escalated, pricing many minorities out of the market.

6.   Add intricate beading and an especially luxurious fabric and prices escalate.

7.   But as prices escalated and nearly any well-worn piece of wood became folk art, the wellspring dried up.

8.   But sale prices have escalated so rapidly since then that some observers are saying it is almost impossible to make money.

9.   Prices have escalated dramatically, too, so that pickups are no longer the least-expensive new vehicles.

10.   Subsequently, prices escalated.