Amid probably the worst recession ever for the British media, and despite a tightening squeeze on public spending, the BBC's income is growing too: up from £4.4bn in 2008 to £4.6bn in 2009.
The coming months will witness not only a tightening squeeze on social services and adult care, but an overhaul of disability payments, engineered entirely around an arbitrarily reduced price tag, as opposed to the needs of claimants.
And though this tightening squeeze drives up the cost of doing business, to the grumbles of the country's bazaaris, it has hit on several dodges to evade the Treasury enforcers: repeatedly renaming ships to evade port authorities' scrutiny, or bribing middlemen to route illicit shipments in roundabout ways to disguise their destination.
At that point the cycle goes into reverse: as asset prices fall, collateral constraints tighten, squeezing borrowing, which results in further falls in prices.
While it may be a hard time for the company to convince acquirers to pay a high price, things might only get worse once data comes in on just how hard Twitter's platform tightening squeezes Twitpic.
Without getting all Mr. Science-y: During cooking, the protein strands in muscles tighten, squeezing out liquid.
See articleIn this section Politics this week Business this week KAL's cartoon ReprintsLibyan forces opposed to Colonel Muammar Qaddafi tightened their squeeze on the last three towns under his control: Bani Walid, Sirte and Sebha.
The Bank of England today tightened the squeeze on borrowers as it raised interest rates by a quarter point to 5.75%, their highest level for six-and-a-half years.
This would put an ever-tightening squeeze on states, forcing them to drop enrollees, cut services or pump up their own contributions.
