71.   Executive vice president and chief financial officer Alan B. Graf Jr. blamed the shortfalls on lower international air freight income stemming from aggressive pricing and rising fuel prices.

72.   For some small businesses, just as worrisome as rising energy prices is the promise of rotating blackouts this summer.

73.   For years, Warnaco was a cash cow for investors, churning out fat dividends and rising share prices.

74.   For the owner of bonds, this means rising prices.

75.   Georgia-Pacific Corp., by contrast, said last week that earnings will beat expectations because of rising prices for its paper and building products such as lumber.

76.   Greenspan warned that if the Federal Reserve allowed inflation to rise now, Americans would begin to expect rising prices.

77.   Greenspan also said inflation has slowed more markedly than he expected just six months ago, in part because the Fed increased rates to contain rising prices.

78.   Gold shares have been fueled by rising bullion prices, which are now at their highest prices in more than five years.

79.   Gold stocks tempered the rally, failing to respond to rising bullion prices.

80.   He also told a House panel that inflation has slowed more than he expected, in part because the Fed increased rates to contain rising prices.