profit squeeze

The profit squeeze might already be showing up in jobs.

The result is a serious profit squeeze on many buildings.

With their profits squeezed by the dollar, companies will be more likely to cut additional jobs.

It's been a difficult year for the whole industry, including a profit squeeze."

Despite healthy growth in sales, American industry is suffering a profit squeeze.

How has the profit squeeze changed The Times over, say, the last three years?

Even at these prices, French restaurateurs find themselves in a profit squeeze.

Investors seem to fear that this loss of what is called the "carry" means a profit squeeze.

The culprit behind the profit squeeze is not primarily rising costs.

The packing companies, he said, have seen their profits squeezed at a time when cattle producers are making a lot of money.

The record-breaking stock market is the offspring of the profits squeezed from this process.

A profit squeeze is making travel agents look more eagerly to consolidators.

"It could move below its Oct. 13 close in view of the profit squeeze that is now taking place and which may extend into 1990."

Another economic theorem is that unethical behavior rises in a profit squeeze.

With companies facing profit squeezes, those nickels suddenly seemed worth bending over to get.

The profit squeeze could delay the development of the next-generation Cherokee, which is crucial to the company's future.

Exports are another way to beat the profit squeeze, as is manufacturing overseas for sale to foreign customers.

Wall Street defines efficiency as maximizing the profit squeezed from each premium dollar.

Few project a real profit squeeze, either.

These analysts similarly dismiss inequality concerns caused by the profit squeeze on wages.

A bottom-line corporate profit squeeze ends in a race for the lowest common denominator.

Three forces, economists say, may bring it about: a sluggish world economy, a growing profit squeeze and a less than ebullient stock market.

He is doing his best to keep that niche distinctive, from the products to the profits squeezed from the sale of each one.

With luxury profits squeezed and retailers watching budgets, this is not a propitious time for young designers.

P.& G. acknowledges that it faces a profit squeeze in what was once one of its most lucrative businesses.