1.   A great deal of time was spent haggling over prices for specific tasks.

2.   Additionally, falling prices for key commodities, like copper, are keeping a lid on most manufacturing costs.

3.   Alas, mythology usually relates that those who dare to challenge the gods pay a stiff price for their temerity.

4.   And the big man always pays the largest price for failure.

5.   As prices for other foods, electricity and gasoline more than tripled, the national currency, the lev, crashed.

6.   As the civil war intensified and the Communist armies neared Canton, prices for food and other necessities skyrocketed.

7.   Beaudoin said Fine Host routinely sets prices for vendors with whom it contracts.

8.   Bond traders will not be willing to pay full price for a bond that has a low interest rate.

9.   But it will deal a blow to the agreement, which allows publishers to set a minimum price for most books.