81.   In addition to asking executive preferences, the Fortune survey evaluated city economic development efforts, wage rates, office space costs, taxes and educational quality.

82.   It could even force suppliers to shift more operations outside North America to countries where wage rates are lower, Paroloni said.

83.   It requires more work to qualify for a green card, and sets a lower wage rate.

84.   Japan, unlike other countries in Asia, has a high wage rate that has historically kept its citizens at home.

85.   Land prices, wage rates and the cost of environmental compliance continue to rise in Washington and elsewhere in the United States.

86.   McManus said the increase in interest rates, wage rates and commodity prices would prove temporary, and that bonds would rally.

87.   New York wage rates applied to federal contracts there.

88.   Pay for working women, on average, is three-fourths of the male wage rate, the report said.

89.   Searching for signs of inflation, economists like Roach have for some time been on the lookout for a rise in wage rates.

90.   She would be acting legally, he said, as long as she announced the new wage rates sometime during the calendar year.