61.   You do that by offering stock to acquire companies that Wall Street does not love but that would raise the value of your company.

62.   A weaker yen helps raise the value of overseas earnings.

63.   A weak yen helps exporters like Bridgestone by raising the value of its overseas earnings.

64.   Analysts speculated the Europeans are holding on to their grain to bring down domestic prices while raising the value of their wheat on the world market.

65.   Area real estate agents told the New York Daily News the project could raise property values for homeowners like Lazio.

66.   As new luxury homes and condos raise property values, longtime residents feel it in their tax bills.

67.   But by raising the value of property the ruling is likely to raise prices for housing and other rents.

68.   Conversely, lowering the debt would raise the value of the dollar.

69.   Currency analysts have said the U.S. government has tried to raise the value of the yen, which makes Japanese products more expensive and thus less competitive abroad.

70.   Higher rates would trim economic growth but they would also act to raise the value of the yen against other currencies by increasing the yield on investments in yen.