61.   Most important, the unemployment rate has fallen so low that businesses may have to raise wages to retain workers, which could spark inflation.

62.   Normally, they raise wages to lure people who would not otherwise be willing to take these jobs.

63.   Nor are most French companies in a condition to raise wages across the board, he said, competing as they do with companies that enjoy lower labor costs.

64.   Not every employer of low-end workers is raising wages, of course.

65.   Once workers are on the payroll, resorts fight to keep them by provid ing translators, helping them with English, promoting them and raising their wages.

66.   Over the years, he was credited with helping to raise wages and to expand job and training opportunities in the construction trades.

67.   Pay should be climbing faster and faster as the unemployment rate falls and companies raise wages to lure new workers or to retain the ones they have.

68.   Prices dropped in the minutes after the report, as investors fretted that a dearth of workers means employers will raise wages to attract labor in the coming months.

69.   Republicans have opposed other attempts to raise the wage.

70.   Reich and Birmingham rejected the notion that raising the wage eliminates jobs, saying there is no credible study or evidence to support that notion.