71.   Overnight call rates near record lows support bonds by making it cheaper for commercial banks and other investors to fund bond purchases.

72.   Plus, a stronger dollar versus the yen makes investment in Japan cheaper for American companies.

73.   Prices also rose as a weakening British pound made it cheaper for consumers using other currencies to buy cocoa, which is priced in pounds, traders said.

74.   Raising money to fund acquisitions just got cheaper for Nationwide.

75.   Schwab calculates that its unit investment trust is substantially cheaper for investors than replicating the Dow-dog strategy on their own.

76.   Some shareholders say De Beers is undervaluing its diamond business to make a buyout cheaper for the Oppenheimers and their allies and less profitable for outside investors.

77.   So the Internet, America Online critics say, will become easier and cheaper for people to use.

78.   Subsidies that make water cheaper for farmers and pay them for growing water-intensive crops such as cotton should be eliminated.

79.   Still, the expanded database should make searching considerably easier and cheaper for anyone who needs to excavate old patents.

80.   That helps exporters by making their products cheaper for overseas buyers.