Individuals and businesses are becoming increasingly risk averse, and it is crimping the economic recovery.
New York's shipping ports and airports might also be subject to closures or delay, crimping the national economy.
But Merck-Medco's margins remained paper-thin even as its revenues grew 12-fold, crimping the margins of the entire company.
PLC, has adopted a similar strategy as an antidote to the slow economic growth that is crimping industry profits.
But financial-crisis fallout and changing market conditions are crimping these funds' returns and imposing new restrictions on fund managers and investors.
As oil prices shriveled last year -- crimping the countrys massive welfare state -- Venezuelans voted in socialist president Hugo Chavez.
However a rise in operating expenses in such a competitive market is crimping profit margins, measured by EBITDA margin, in addition to this.
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UN-avoiding diplomacy has failed, it is not clear that the Security Council will do any better than others in crimping the regime's nuclear ambitions.
Investors are no longer feeding the mortgage bond beast, or cutting off demand and thus severely crimping the ability of companies like Countrywide to operate.
Were these countries to open themselves to the latest seeds--and even if more developed nations remained ideologically GMO-averse, thereby crimping exports--the four would reap productivity gains, dirt-poor Bangladesh most of all.
There are overlapping concerns here: while Intel clearly is blaming the drive issues for the shortfall, there are some worries on the Street that a soft economy is also crimping PC demand.
Many mothers, along with lawmakers who represent them, say the new standard, which went into effect in 2011, is unfairly crimping the ability of stay-at-home spouses, retirees and other consumers to obtain credit cards.
However, food inflation has been hovering close to double digits for over two years, driving up overall inflation and crimping the space the central bank has to cut lending rates to stimulate economic growth.
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