21.   For almost four years the company has boosted the bottom line by firing people, spending less and buying back stock.

22.   He said grape prices could keep rising for the next two or three years, and the company was boosting prices on many of its lines.

23.   Higher interest rates make it harder for companies to boost profits and give investors less reason to sink their money into stocks.

24.   Higher interest rates make it harder for companies to boost profits and give investors less reason to put their money into stocks.

25.   If the company cannot boost that languishing value, WorldCom is itself a potential takeover target.

26.   In the slower fourth quarter, the company boosts its cargo operations, moving agricultural and other exports, spokesman Nachman Kleiman said.

27.   It coincides with other expected regulatory changes that allow the company to boost earnings, even as it freezes rates, analysts said.

28.   Investors were eager to lend because these companies can boost profits as they develop new technologies and expand.

29.   It was unclear if the company boosted the number of firm orders.