1.   However, they normally obtained the most competitive prices through cooperatives and the volume of business through them was very large.

2.   The communiqu added that consumers in the industrialized countries should not be protected from rising oil prices through higher wages as this would only serve to fuel inflationary pressures.

3.   It was also thought that jobbers would stabilise prices through their short-term speculative activities.

4.   And Congress may simply decide to raise cigarette prices through taxes, though that option is hardly its first choice.

5.   And they are pushing the point of low prices through their pages even more heavily, in an attempt to draw more shoppers, more quickly.

6.   A record number of shares switched hands on both the New York and Nasdaq markets, driving stock prices through two wild up and down cycles.

7.   But some analysts say it may be hard to reignite stock prices through lower interest rates, because investors are concluding that corporate profits will not fully recover soon.

8.   By securing fixed prices through long-term contracts, EES helped customers maintain predictable supplies at stable costs.

9.   Companies are assumed to pass on higher payroll costs to customers, while workers with more money drive up prices through increased consumption.