11.   Bay Area construction costs have soared in recent years.

12.   Bay Area construction costs have soared in recent years, while insurance companies have quietly moved to limit their liability for fires and other devastating losses.

13.   Boeing has continued to suffer because it sold many of its jets to airlines at steep discounts while its costs soared.

14.   -- At a time when baseball is supposedly nearing financial disaster, Noll found that administrative costs were soaring.

15.   A number of nuclear plants were built before costs soared, enabling those operated by better-managed utilities to provide some of the least expensive power around.

16.   But as college costs have soared and federal aid to colleges has fallen, the ability to meet historic aid commitments has declined.

17.   But printing costs have soared to world levels, while retail prices for books have remained low.

18.   But the costs soar when other indirect economic factors in the private and public sectors are added in, according to a Health Department study presented to supervisors.

19.   Comparisons with year-ago results for commodity chemical producers generally are strong because raw material costs soared during that quarter.

20.   Costs soared, profits were disappointing and several prized U.S. deal makers defected a few months ago to Credit Suisse First Boston.