11.   As long as buyers and sellers were both motivated, prices should stay in line.

12.   Ashanti had staked its immediate financial future on a flat gold market, taking out contracts betting that prices would stay low.

13.   At that time, the oil industry was flush with cash and convinced that oil prices would stay high for years.

14.   A growing circle of winemakers in California has had good results with the grape, but the price has stayed prohibitively high.

15.   Adding to optimism that crude prices will stay strong, OPEC concluded the first day of its formal winter conference in Vienna today.

16.   Again, Right said, if prices stay at these levels or higher, he thinks people will again turn more of their attention to fuel efficiency.

17.   But he thinks if prices stay where they are, or move higher, effects soon will be apparent.

18.   But if prices stay high, as they did after Hurricane Andrew and as insurers hope they do now, big profits can begin to look like gravy.

19.   But if gas prices stay near current levels, the impact on consumers will be staggering.

20.   But prices almost never stay that low.