About half of Olsten's revenues come from health care, a field under great public and private cost pressure.

Over the next four years, $1.6 billion for new health initiatives and to meet cost pressures and population growth.

One day he gets fired because of cost pressures.

The current cost pressures are forcing companies to alter their basic approach to the business.

"Most of these new technologies do contribute something to improve health, but the cost pressures are enormous."

How much had they come to understand all the new cost pressures?

The cost pressures on the big airlines have already had an impact.

"Spending growth will slow in the second half even as cost pressure continues to build for many retailers," the analysts wrote.

Similar cost pressures have played out in higher-technology industries, too.

So you have the cost pressure on the one hand and the lack of revenue growth on the other.