11.   Bank stocks were beaten down in recent days because of concern profit would be squeezed by Asian turmoil and an interest rate environment unfavorable to making profitable loans.

12.   A Gore administration would likely continue attacking tobacco companies and would squeeze profits at health maintenance organizations and drug companies.

13.   Across the industry, issuers are paying more for marketing and bad loans and earning less in interest payments, squeezing profits.

14.   Al Lerner, once a minority stockholder in the old Browns and the unofficial favorite to get the new club, noted that such a fee will squeeze profits.

15.   Although commodity chemical prices were stronger than in the year-ago quarter, profits were squeezed by higher raw material costs, Exxon said.

16.   But competition is growing fiercer by the month, new products are being introduced and prices are being cut at an increasingly rapid pace, squeezing profits.

17.   But hovering over all of that was the ability of corporations to squeeze profits out of the wages of workers who, battered from many directions, felt powerless.

18.   But lower spreads also squeeze the profits of market-makers, who are making less money on each trade.

19.   But locals are worried that trying to squeeze more profits from big developments could kill the proverbial goose that laid the golden egg.

20.   But the arithmetic that results when Coca-Cola, the company, decides to squeeze more profit from its complex relationships with its bottlers was laid bare last week.