11.   Labor problems are mounting in Korea, as the economy grows at its slowest pace in three years and mounting costs crimp corporate profits.

12.   Money counts for one or two people working at home, even when the mounting costs of commercial faxes soon approach the price of a personal fax machine.

13.   More and more women took jobs to meet the mounting costs, and wealth nurtured a consumer society.

14.   Some investors have been concerned about the mounting costs of legal defense or about the possibility of the industry losing a case.

15.   South Korean banks, faced with mounting foreign borrowing costs, are confident the worst news is already priced into their bonds.

16.   The greatest, state officials say, is the mounting cost of dealing with disability and chronic illness.

17.   The likelihood of bankruptcy increases with age, as people approaching retirement face mounting costs, particularly for prescription drugs and long-term care.

18.   The system is popular, but skeptics are starting to criticize the mounting costs.

19.   They also are attempting to defray the mounting cost of churning out the complex, thumbnail-size chips.

20.   Trying to avoid raising interest rates for their discounted loans, automakers stepped up the subsidies even further, but the mounting costs crimped profit margins.