81.   Congressional leaders have promised to tackle the problem this year, citing public demand for help as drug costs continue to rise.

82.   Hershey expects the higher costs to continue until the center fully opens in the fall.

83.   It added that operating costs would continue to remain high, although efforts were being made to contain costs through a financial restructuring program.

84.   Railroad officials also said at a meeting with financial analysts that fuel costs are continuing to rise.

85.   While Congress allowed the independent counsel law to expire last July, the costs continue to accumulate.

86.   How to finance overall reconstruction costs meanwhile continued to dominate debates among politicians and businessmen in Tokyo Thursday.

87.   And he said that operating costs continued to be held down firmly.

88.   But analysts cautioned that it was difficult to predict if benefit costs would continue to rise.

89.   These costs will continue to be subsidised by the national social security system.

90.   The strength of the mark and high production costs would continue to push industrialists to transfer production abroad, he added.