1.   The lack of effective advertising has crimped sales.

2.   Both Ford and GM have crimped their sales by discontinuing some low-profit cars, but analysts say the moves should help earnings.

3.   A lingering political crisis may also be crimping sales, analysts said.

4.   A week earlier, during the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, he took time to explain some of the factors crimping GM sales.

5.   Colder-than-usual weather in many areas crimped sales of spring clothing while an early Easter pushed many holiday-related sales back into March.

6.   Curbing the mortgage interest break would devalue homes and crimp sales.

7.   David Healy, a Burnham Securities analyst, said tight supplies are crimping sales of popular Japanese models.

8.   Exporters who complain that the currency is overvalued and crimps their sales must instead see the culprit as increased competition in a global economy, Franco said.

9.   Exporters have complained an overvalued real has crimped their sales.

10.   Higher interest rates have also crimped sales and increased funding costs for developers and forced some companies to sell property at a loss.