31.   Casinos have had a dramatic impact in reducing unemployment on her reservation, she said, taking hundreds of people off welfare and increasing their buying power.

32.   Click on the Inflation Calculator link for an eye-opening look at how rising consumer prices have eaten into your buying power.

33.   Congress has already begun hearings on patient safety, and a coalition of big employers plans to use its buying power with health plans to press for specific improvements.

34.   Consumer buying power will also increase as a result of a government-promised increase in inflation-adjusted wages.

35.   Consumer goods cost roughly twice as much as in the United States, so buying power is cut again.

36.   Compared with the allure of the buying power and world-roving salesmen of Iran, the Africans are a penny-candy machine.

37.   Decide whether you want that much buying power after you retire or some smaller amount.

38.   Distributors are complaining that indies are forming informal buying groups to maximize buying power.

39.   Even modest inflation will rapidly reduce buying power as the years go by.

40.   Even low-skilled workers, whose buying power has slid steeply over the past two decades, are finally enjoying the fruits of strong labor demand.