Granted, that was a pretty tough time in the market, and it did manage to squeeze out a 1.9 percent gain in the period it was open, but it's still worth keeping in mind.
These smaller firms hung on to plots, sometimes for decades, trying successions of innovative techniques to squeeze out every last drop of hydrocarbons and in the process becoming extremely familiar with the geology of their fields.
First off, the technology and innovation that enabled producers to frack better and squeeze more energy out of shale rock formations originated in the U.S. as geologists and engineers worked feverishly to produce more oil and gas in preparation for high gas prices.
Apache invested in new technology to squeeze out all that and then some.
If Oracle manages to squeeze more profit out of Sun in coming years than it and others first projected, of course, the stock may support a bigger multiple than it currently appears to merit.
"The airlines are basically trying to squeeze out more fees in the face of higher costs, and it is inconveniencing a lot of passengers, " said Hobica.
Ford wants to also accelerate development of global vehicles that share similar underpinnings, in order to squeeze out even more savings from engineering, manufacturing and marketing.
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Just as we have found new oil and gas in the ground, our ability to squeeze more GDP out of a BTU through efficiency is also undergoing a radical transformation.
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Today the company has researchers in Germany, the Netherlands and India looking for ways to squeeze more juice out of the air.
Plaid Cymru MP Hywel Williams said the benefits squeeze set out in the Autumn Statement threatened to dismantle the welfare state and create a generation lost to unemployment, homelessness and poverty.
"I couldn't live in a world where all I do is try to squeeze nickels out here and there, " he says.
Thousands of talented engineers and mathematicians toil away on Wall Street and elsewhere in order to figure out some new way to squeeze another penny out of the financial system.
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But Yeltsin can see that it is inevitable and is determined to squeeze the best possible deal out of the West in return for grudging tolerance.
Dutch bancassurer SNS Reaal is in talks to avoid another government bailout that could wipe out shareholder value and squeeze bondholders.
Firms of every description sought to squeeze out inefficiencies, sell off non-core businesses and close redundant operations, all in the name of shareholder value.
Yet farm values have held up much better than they did in the 1930s or even in the 1980s, when prices fell by around a third in real terms as commodity prices dropped and the Federal Reserve used high interest rates to squeeze inflation out of the system.
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Time Warner Cable and Cablevision Systems both grew profits despite losing subscribers in the third quarter, as premium phone, internet and television services allowed both companies to squeeze more out of each customer.
One-hundred-and-eighty thousand volunteers have been working three-hour shifts in the swing states to squeeze out every last voter.
When an economy is in the doldrums, the ability to squeeze more cash out of a business on that scale is a rare and precious thing.
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