1.   But price hikes have slowed in recent years for many reasons, including greater productivity, cheaper foreign labor, tougher competition and bigger economies of scale.

2.   Companies could train older programmers in less time than it takes to process visas for cheaper foreign workers.

3.   Faced with industry consolidations and the threat of cheaper foreign labor, many unions have grown more reluctant to strike.

4.   In Japan, the inefficient but politically powerful farm sector whips up nationalist sentiment to win protection from cheaper foreign competition.

5.   It tells U.S. pharmacists that they can import cheaper foreign drugs, but then denies them access to the FDA-approved labels that must be on the drugs.

6.   More and more construction companies are now hiring cheaper foreign workers, both legitimate and illegal, who come from Southeast Asia and the Asian subcontinent.

7.   Opponents argue that the industry has exaggerated claims of a worker shortage so it can bring in cheaper foreign labor to keep wages down.

8.   Skymark plans to use leased aircraft, contract out maintenance and operate its aircraft using cheaper foreign flight crews.

9.   The company also agreed to retrain and retain any worker whose job was eliminated because of subcontracting to nonunion plants in the United States or cheaper foreign manufacturers.

10.   The principal victim of false-labeling schemes, prosecutors say, is the domestic textile industry, whose sales are undercut by the flood of cheaper foreign goods.