Sentence examples for cost squeeze from inspiring English sources

Mr. Scully said the H.M.O.'s were caught in a cost squeeze.

Beyond the cost squeeze, we believe Compass has room for further improvement.

But even Mr. Thompson says the cost squeeze has left the health care system "stretched and stressed".

"There has been a serious cost squeeze in the industry relating to insurance and fuel," Mr Robins said.

The report, to be released today, for the first time puts hard numbers on a cost squeeze that has intensified with the real estate boom.

But the bill never even made it to committee, and Bangladesh still faces a cost squeeze that is ultimately felt most acutely on those lowest on the production chain, especially the lowest-paying subcontractors, among whom corruption is endemic.

The Bank would "look very carefully" at what was going on in the housing market, which had picked up more strongly than expected.Despite the revival in housing, consumer spending is forecast to grow a little more slowly than in the Bank's February report, as higher energy costs squeeze budgets.

The article, entitled "Basic Costs Squeeze Families," by Ryan Knutson and Theo Francis, discusses the double-whammy of stagnating incomes and rising costs for necessities that is confronting middle-class Americans.

Higher labor costs squeezed corporate profit margins in the first quarter.

Soaring development costs squeezed out small publishers and stifled creativity.

Hopkinson predicted that some retailers would not survive as the weakness of sterling forces up costs, squeezing shops already battling each other for a share of customers' wallets.