11.   No-growth sales and weak stocks are usually the prime ingredients for corporate mergers that squeeze costs and consolidate market share.

12.   Now, with managed-care squeezing costs out of the health-care system, some hospitals say the restrictions are no longer needed.

13.   Profits have also soared, as the bank squeezed costs and shed less-profitable business.

14.   Reinhardt said the HMO executives were profiting by squeezing health costs, after the government, for political reasons, had failed to do so.

15.   Such consolidation could squeeze considerable costs from both systems.

16.   Supporters say that by squeezing administrative costs and using economies of scale, private companies can spend more in the classroom and still pocket a profit.

17.   Squeezing Medicaid costs further threatens the quality of care, the industry says.

18.   Still, the rebate rule shows how tricky it can be to squeeze drug costs out of health care.

19.   That hesitancy to spend has a damaging effect on retailers, who have been forced to squeeze costs out of their operations and slim down to remain profitable.

20.   Swiss specialty chemicals companies are reporting rising profit as sales increase and as they squeeze costs.