Both are responding to the squeeze by trying to capture fatter margins downstream.
Its biggest challenge is avoiding a price squeeze by cheaper phones churned out by the likes of ZTE and Huawei.
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The five executives of the firm who were eventually indicted protested that the charges were really a squeeze by Giuliani.
Congress could ameliorate the Greenspan squeeze by passing an incentive-oriented tax cut.
And if the economy grows vigorously from now through the rest of the 1980s -- a fiscal event every few economists are predicting -- the funds will barely squeeze by, with no margin to guard against a temporary downturn.
It said its up-market range was protected from a sales squeeze suffered by Britain's biggest department store chain Marks and Spencer.
You can squeeze it by hand, but if you put it in a wringer, you're going to get some more out of it.
The German export association BGA has warned of a "massive credit squeeze" by late summer while Business Europe, the region's main business lobby, told the European Central Bank that bank lending desperately needs to be improved.
An increase in rental expense will squeeze the margin by approximately 50-100bps per year for the next 5 years.
Squeeze the zucchini by the fistful to thoroughly wring out excess liquid.
It was certainly a very radical thing to do when he removed regulations and cut taxes and left the Fed to squeeze out inflation by monetary means.
Less alarmist economists fretted that Asia's economic troubles would exacerbate the squeeze already being caused by strong exchange rates in America and Britain.
Seagate would then commence a tender offer for the remaining outstanding shares of LaCie (followed as the case may be by a squeeze-out procedure), subject to a clearance decision from the AMF.
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It is true that a weakened Obama will seek to win cheap points by putting the squeeze on Israel.
And the squeeze on corporate profits engendered by the Lewis turning point will make it harder for companies to invest in boosting the productivity of today's low-skilled workers.
CDO, however, and in a credit squeeze they fall together, by virtue of being in the same murky structure, as investors rush for the exit or seek to hedge their risks.
Whereas China is boosting infrastructure spending to prop up demand, India's plans to build roads and power plants with the help of private money may be delayed by the credit squeeze.
But that will be counterbalanced by a new squeeze on liquidity: a 90-day freeze on forward foreign exchange contracts, which will leave companies scrambling for hard currency to pay their overseas suppliers.
The funding squeeze has partially been caused by the Irish Sports Council's decision to only accept the IAAF performance list as a source of world ranking, and not the overall ranking list, which is based on the six best performances.
Entrepreneurs who get things started are often replaced by managers who can squeeze efficiency and productivity.
It thinks that the squeeze on the consumer, caused by rising taxes and debt-servicing charges, is abating.
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Aggressive pricing tactics by competitors could also squeeze the company, Ives notes.
Because this time Argentina would see not only a monetary squeeze, but a currency undercut by that of its main (and Mercosur) trade partner.
Here, laid bare, is a fundamental question for the future well-being of the UK. If Iain Duncan-Smith is able to squeeze billions from the welfare bill by getting people into jobs, then he will have achieved what politicians of all hues have failed to do in decades.
Now, the same increase in joblessness would squeeze real wages for the average workers by 12%.
Third, schools are not inclined to squeeze families who have shown them loyalty by applying early.
First, they squeeze real incomes, and hence spending by firms and households.
As a result the only way that operators can squeeze more money out of subscribers is by offering them new services and phones.
What turned this somewhat tolerable squeeze into a disaster were toxins added by the IMF, with its institutional bias favoring devaluation and increasing taxes.
Regulators would also need to act as surrogate competitors in another way: by making sure that a squeeze on costs does not lead to a strangling of services.
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