It's too early to tell whether this recession has crimped the birth rate, Haub said.
On the other hand, if the job market were to falter, wage growth would be crimped.
This comes at a time when producers have already been crimped by lower prices.
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Meanwhile, tough economic times and fiscal austerity have crimped sales in US and Europe.
It was a horrible book and a crimped way of looking at economics and the human spirit.
Rising prices may well have crimped consumer spending which means lower growth and lower need for workers.
He concentrated on the job at hand, on his fingers as they twisted and crimped the wires.
The company said that margins were crimped by more sales through their outlet stores, where prices are cheaper.
The company says it is finished with restructuring in its new fiscal year, so this benefit could be crimped.
It means only pasties made in Cornwall can claim to be Cornish pasties, typified by being crimped on the side.
Specifically, margin expansion, he notes, will become more limited and profits are likely to be crimped as grocers contend with higher inflation.
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Just, where pasties are still made by hand, there is a sense of pride in every pasty that is filled and crimped.
Perhaps the biggest damage that comes when returns from equities are overestimated is that investment, and hence growth, in the world economy gets crimped.
Now, crimped by shrinking capacity at the airlines, sales have flattened.
The guidelines have upset the charitable world and crimped international giving.
Smaller manufacturers with weaker balance-sheets will be snapped up by bigger, more efficient firms, he predicts, and shortages that have crimped the industry's growth will ease.
The pipe would have to be a portion of the riser, which would have to still be attached to the BOP, but crimped and bent over.
Banks are navigating new government regulations that have crimped some old sources of revenue, like issuing credit cards to students or trading for the bank's own profit.
The growth rate of the country must be crimped by this ongoing construct of financial burden carried by college graduates who need to postpone marriage and family formation.
Supply of things like base metals, oil and rubber is crimped after years of underinvestment in mines and oilfields and farms, he says, so prices are heading up.
When Sept. 11 crimped travel worldwide, Samsonite hit severe turbulence.
In 2005, a bipartisan panel appointed by President George W. Bush recommended changes that would have severely crimped tax-free investment gains in life insurance, as part of a broader tax overhaul.
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Decimalization has narrowed the spread between the highest bids and lowest offers, meaning individual investors are paying less when buying stocks and getting more when selling them, much to the chagrin of Nasdaq marketmakers whose spreads have been crimped.
Sales have been crimped by Ebay sellers and carmakers themselves, which are putting in better stereos at the factory. (A few audio companies make money that way but at lower margins.) Audio equipment company Kicker this year reduced its budget for its dB Drag team.
When he had seen her in the center of the road he had thought for an instant she was a ghost, and there was a ghostly detached quality in the way she moved, her lips crimped in that twist of self-criticism he had noticed in the car, when she had slid in beside him.
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