In the past several years, various entrepreneurs and companies have started to squeeze other types of data into the vertical blanking portion of the traditional TV broadcast signal including pages from the World Wide Web.
But recently Sweden, which dishes out the Nobels, has started to feel a squeeze from its neighbours.
In recent weeks, sequestration has started to kick in, and, sadly, the squeeze on the public sector won't be ending anytime soon.
Inflation, which squeezes household disposable income, has started to slow lately, but remains above the central bank's target of 2 percent per year.
There was another one behind my sternum that was wrapped around my esophagus and it hadn't yet started to squeeze things down, but it was poised to do that.
Consumers have started to curb spending, feeling squeezed by rising prices and unchanged salaries.
In the case of Brazil, that is healthy, since the economy cannot satisfy domestic demand (rising at 8% this year) without higher inflation, reckons Arminio Fraga, a fund manager and former central-bank president.Even before the currency plunge, companies in both countries had started to feel the credit squeeze.
Subscriptions to the thousands of research journals can cost a big university library millions of pounds each year – costs that have started to bite as budgets are squeezed.
Real wages – adjusting for inflation – have started to rise in recent months, after a prolonged squeeze in the wake of the recession.
Over the past year, as taxes on beer and cigarettes have risen, tax-free overtime abolished, tax deductions squeezed and tax-band thresholds frozen, even the French have started to grumble.
