31.   All markets will remain under price pressure from tough competition, the company said.

32.   Both measures of price pressure in the product pipeline have now fallen three consecutive months.

33.   Bundesbank President Hans Tietmeyer said the central bank needs proof that price pressures are subsiding before it acts on rates again.

34.   Business at Philadelphia-area manufacturers improved in February with little evidence of price pressures, according to a regional Federal Reserve study.

35.   But continued price pressures at the intermediate goods level are threatening to spill into final goods, they said.

36.   But closer examination of the Labor Department report showed little, if any, over-all lessening of price pressure.

37.   But despite the technical hurdles, consolidation is a possible antidote to growing competitive price pressure in the industry, he said.

38.   But he does not expect any strong upward price pressure to build until more economically troubled properties work their way through the system.

39.   But the administration hopes that the permits, which would be traded on a free market, will limit the price pressures on energy and encourage innovation instead.

40.   But the report left many economists struggling to explain why price pressures remain so contained despite the strong economic growth and low unemployment.