21.   If you do have a credit card, raise its limit.

22.   In raising the limits, the Federal Housing Authority, a governmental agency that insures home loans, acknowledges housing prices have risen.

23.   In NEW YORK, crude oil was steady as traders waited to see whether the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries will raise production limits.

24.   In the last five years, some legislatures have been pushed by consumers into raising the limits.

25.   Instead of dramatically raising coverage limits, some bankers want part of that surplus refunded to institutions that paid premiums.

26.   Investors expected government officials to announce plans to raise the limit on foreign stock ownership after trading ended.

27.   It would also cut tax revenues by raising the limit for exemption from the excess-wages tax.

28.   McConnell said that if the contribution limits were raised and then indexed to inflation, he might be able to support a soft-money ban.

29.   Oil companies performed worst, amid talk that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries would vote to raise export limits at its meeting in Jakarta later this month.

30.   Once a consumer starts falling behind on payments or exceeds his or her credit limit, these issuers often just raise their limit.