Now someone must have upset him: rising maize prices could force the price of tortillas up by 50%, the makers of the corn pancakes warned last month.

现在，肯定有谁触犯了这位神灵了：玉米薄饼市场上月警告说，玉米价格的不断上涨推动了玉米饼价格上涨了50%。

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That would eat up the cost savings on marketing and administration already factored into the purchase price, and perhaps force undesirable cuts to operations.

这会冲销市场推广以及管理上的成本节省(这些东西已经列入了收购价格的考虑因素)，而且有可能迫使他们进行不受欢迎的营运上的削减。

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Higher cotton prices and rising labour costs in China will force US retailers to lift the price of clothes this year by up to 15 per cent compared with 2010, according to Fitch.

惠誉（Fitch）表示，由于棉价走高，中国的劳动力成本不断上涨，美国零售商今年将被迫提高服装价格，最高将比去年高出15%。

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One of the main complaints of genuinely rural types is that townies with weekend cottages not only force up the price of property, thus driving out the rural young, but also get away with paying only 50% of the standard council tax, on the grounds that they do not use local services as much as full-time residents.

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OPEC's desire to force the oil price up is almost certainly linked to the falling dollar.

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