21.   By keeping inventories low and carefully planning promotional sales, many of them have learned how to squeeze strong profits out of modest sales gains.

22.   Cement companies tumbled on expectations profits will be squeezed by a glut, especially if construction slows.

23.   Certainly, the company will have to squeeze profit, via improved efficiency, from a smaller share of the market.

24.   Coming as the economy struggles out of recession, these have squeezed bank profits and in some cases generated immense losses.

25.   Company officials also said profits would be squeezed for another six months.

26.   Competition for nurses is intense, it added, pushing up costs and potentially squeezing profits.

27.   Corporate profits get squeezed as rates rise.

28.   Corporate borrowing costs rise with interest rates, squeezing profits.

29.   Corporations are seeing their profits squeezed, he said, because the cost of paying and training workers is rising.

30.   Declining demand for power in Hong Kong may squeeze CLP profits for years, executives say.