21.   But costs continue to rise.

22.   But every approach to savings has at least one major pitfall, which has kept many parents on the sidelines while college costs continued to soar.

23.   But costs have continued to rise, as special-education money followed the children to regular classes.

24.   But he added that such resistance could well be worn down as cellular phones become more common in everyday life and as costs continue to fall.

25.   But investors on Wall Street found reason to sell Tuesday, after Greenspan warned that prices could rise if labor costs continue to climb.

26.   Confidence that borrowing costs would continue falling lifted stocks in the first six weeks of this year.

27.   Costs have continued to grow while revenue and sales shrink.

28.   Costs will continue to be high in the first quarter, said Gerald Gitner, who was named chairman and chief executive last month.

29.   Corporate health costs will continue to grow until executives do the following to restructure their health benefits.

30.   Despite that, the latest government figures show that labor costs continue to rise only modestly.