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1. The Bush administration played down any worry that costlier credit could cloud the rosy economic outlook it wants to highlight going into November's presidential election.

2. Technological restrictions have hindered CNOOC from making rapid forays into deepwater drilling, which is riskier and costlier than exploring in shallow waters.

3. But experts said it will be a long time before ethanol replaces gasoline entirely because the alternative fuel is costlier and harder to transport.

4. The costlier ore had forced the steelmakers to transfer the resultant high production costs to consumers to offset the decline in margins.

5. Record oil prices and costlier raw materials are squeezing profits and eroding household incomes.

6. Costlier commodities are now beginning to push up prices of a wide range of basic necessities.

7. " White is so much costlier, " he said from Kolkata.

8. The World Food Program head Josette Sheeran said on Tuesday costlier food threatened to plunge more than 100 million people on every continent into hunger.

9. Hosting banquets that have little to do with business, or that are costlier than necessary has become quite common.

10. Thus, wind power will ultimately be both costlier and reduce emissions less than officially estimated.