11.   If prices shoot up again, a distinct possibility if another refinery goes down, stations could soon begin cutting operating hours and laying off employees.

12.   If that happens, and if demand for gasoline remains high and refineries keep running at capacity, prices could shoot up.

13.   In retrospect, perhaps Hopkins should have stayed at Boeing, whose stock price shot up after she left.

14.   In the past year, wages have risen and stock prices have shot to record highs.

15.   It agreed to pay Placer a royalty on production and to allow Placer back into the project later if gold prices shot up again.

16.   Land prices shot up, too.

17.   Last year, vegetable and fruit prices shot up because an unusually hot summer and water shortages damaged crops.

18.   Nevertheless, she said, prices were shooting up because of the increased interest in the area.

19.   Oil prices shot up this year on concerns that fighting between Israel and the Palestinians would disrupt oil exports.

20.   Oil prices shot up to previously unheard of heights and the economy fell into a recession in November, the month after the Mets lost the World Series.