71.   Pitz said the company had boosted its handset business by cutting costs and aiming at the lower end of the market.

72.   A Nomura official said that the company would probably boost profitability in the future.

73.   German companies are boosting investment in the United States, due to high production costs at home and the demands of a global market.

74.   Higher interest rates hurt stocks by reducing corporate investment and consumer spending, making it harder for companies to boost profits.

75.   If subscribers spend more time online, then the company could boost rates for online ads and get commissions from shopping sites.

76.   Investors are more interested in seeing the company boost its revenues.

77.   It wants Japanese companies to boost purchases of spare parts and it wants more deregulation on the car parts market to let foreign firms compete better against local ones.

78.   Japanese stocks rebounded Tuesday as news of a tie-up between a major Japanese and U.S. financial companies boosted optimism about more such links in the future.

79.   Other companies quickly boosted production of bread, which has a two-day shelf life.

80.   Stocks were mixed today as robust corporate earnings reports from several technology companies boosted the Nasdaq further into record territory while blue-chip industrial stocks languished.