"Instead of paying runaway prices," she said, "people are running away."

Asked what caused the slower rate, Ms. Corcoran said: "People are exhausted by runaway prices.

He voted no to guaranteed Medicare prescription benefits that would protect seniors from runaway prices.

A film script that raised industry concerns about runaway prices after it sold for a record $3 million last year is at the center of another controversy.

I was just registering my dismay at the runaway prices being fetched at auction these days.

By 1975, he argues, "the real enemy" was "a deepening recession," not runaway prices.

Having sought to cool the property market by reining in runaway prices, Chinese leaders will be hard put to restart growth.

And Sea Hero, who ran a solid fourth in the Blue Grass, was installed at a runaway price of 30-1.

Scores of Long Islanders, those who purchased a house more than 10 years ago, have been buoyed by the runaway prices of the last decade.

Hong Kong's market has fluctuated as the government has taken steps to control runaway prices.