Some analysts perceive that information technology has permanently lowered equity premiums and, hence, permanently raised the prices of the collateral that underlies all financial assets.

Some use one-time cash bonuses to reward workers without permanently raising wage rates.

The third plan would raise savings by permanently raising payroll taxes and putting the extra revenue in private investment accounts.

Bonuses are cheaper than wage increases for the auto makers because they do not permanently raise their labor costs.

This could be achieved by permanently raising taxes or cutting expenditures 5% of GDP.

Mrs. Whitman proposed shifting the emphasis from education and job training that would permanently raise recipients' income levels to moving people quickly into entry-level jobs.

A drawbridge permanently raised.

When we step out, you'll come back here with your rank permanently raised.

Permanently raising inflation in hopes that this would permanently lower unemployment would eventually cause firms' inflation forecasts to rise, altering their employment decisions.

No single job-training effort, not even a city block full of food pantries, can permanently raise citizens up from below the poverty line.