11.   Construction costs escalated because the track was being built over almost solid rock.

12.   If all we do is give everyone insurance, there will be an enormous increase in demand for health-care services -- and costs will escalate even more.

13.   Repairmen said they were unsure why replacement-part costs have escalated, particularly for minivans.

14.   Senior network officials argued that the system is anachronistic and increasingly unrealistic at a time when program costs have escalated and network profits have eroded drastically.

15.   The chief executive of a UnitedHealth subsidiary said Thursday that costs would escalate if the company stopped its reviews of mental health treatment decisions.

16.   The costs have escalated.

17.   The league fears such free agency would cause salary costs to escalate.

18.   The main objection to parity for mental illness in health coverage is the belief that insurance costs will escalate dramatically.

19.   The only clear loser has been the taxpayer, as the costs escalate.

20.   The reason for this is that our costs are escalating in such a marginal way, everything from marketing to promoting to signing bands.