With rising costs the festival employs some 200 permanent staff and nearly 4,000 during the summer—and a ten-year freeze on government subsidies, its finances were becoming so squeezed that the festival could no longer invest in new opera productions.
The state budget squeeze is fast becoming a city budget squeeze, as struggling states around the nation plan deep cuts in aid to cities and local governments that will almost certainly result in more service cuts, layoffs and local tax increases.
Second, the markets most big investment banks are trying to squeeze into are becoming ever more concentrated.
With the days of commanding large fees from advertisers becoming a distant memory, agencies are squeezed.
Just as proper staff jobs for foreign correspondents, photographers and cameramen are becoming rarer and freelance rates are being squeezed, so too are these jobs becoming more dangerous, in a turbulent fractious world.
The West's legacy airlines are beginning to feel the squeeze and are becoming understandably fearful of the super-connectors' recent and startling take-off.Read the full story: "Super-connecting the world"; or take a flight around the globe with our "long haul" infographic.
C1 Cheap Fares, Seat Optional Airlines are becoming increasingly creative as they try to squeeze more passengers into economy class.
"We need to break the monopoly, and for that we've got to get above 30% [market share]." But squeezing out those gains is becoming increasingly difficult.
Heavyweights like Bridgewater Associates, which manages $150 billion in client money, are becoming bigger while the smaller guys are being squeezed by the high costs of legal compliance.
You'll notice your breath becoming deeper and slower with each squeeze, and you will relax and release your emotions.[3].
