21.   The expansion is mature, labor markets are tight, and global competition has weakened pricing power.

22.   The lack of pricing power is not preventing businesses from producing more.

23.   The old category includes consumer icons that have lost pricing power because of deflation as well as traditional smokestack manufacturers.

24.   The pricing power of consumer product manufacturers has been pummeled by the Internet and other technical innovations in recent years.

25.   This probably will translate into declining returns on equity and further erosion of business pricing power.

26.   To combat the lack of pricing power, companies are whittling costs.

27.   Wisconsin Electric Power is one of the utilities with a new approach to pricing power.