| labor cost | 62.48 | And that, he added, means higher labor costs. | ||
| production cost | 48.78 | Production costs began to spiral. | ||
| energy cost | 20.54 | Energy costs are skyrocketing. | ||
| fuel cost | 16.26 | He cited higher jet fuel costs. | ||
| health cost | 12.18 | Health costs are not a force of nature. | ||
| drug cost | 11.45 | Drug costs are also rising. | ||
| transportation cost | 10.60 | Transportation costs also continue. | ||
| development cost | 10.53 | Reducing product development costs. | ||
| construction cost | 9.81 | Construction costs are high. | ||
| maintenance cost | 9.08 | Maintenance costs are also lower. | ||
| interest cost | 7.70 | He declined to project interest costs. | ||
| transaction cost | 7.57 | Neither do transaction costs. | ||
| health-care cost | 6.58 | But the operations raise health-care costs. | ||
| start-up cost | 6.52 | Start-up costs are high. | ||
| travel cost | 5.99 | Everyone has to pay their travel costs. | ||
| wage cost | 5.73 | Wage costs remain subdued. | ||
| court cost | 5.33 | The rest covers court costs. | ||
| capital cost | 5.27 | Why are capital costs so high? | ||
| college cost | 5.27 | Yet college costs were soaring. | ||
| business cost | 5.07 | Labor costs account for two-thirds of all business costs. |