91.   The company attributed much of the decline to rising materials costs and said it would raise its own prices for polyethylene and ethylene glycol, its biggest selling products.

92.   The decline seems to have been prompted by employers worried about rising health costs.

93.   The culprit behind the profit squeeze is not primarily rising costs.

94.   The health care and insurance company today said its expansion into the managed-care business ran afoul of rising medical costs.

95.   The merger of the Milwaukee Journal and Sentinel was attributed, in part, to rising newsprint costs.

96.   The institutions also are facing rising borrowing costs and falling stock prices.

97.   The main cause was rising fuel costs.

98.   The only weapons the agency uses to combat rising costs with, critics contend, are toll increases and the threat of reduced services.

99.   These margins remain under pressure, due to rising raw material costs.

100.   Though many analysts are concerned that rising labor costs will eventually push consumer prices higher, inflation so far has remained subdued.