31.   Either way, the result is that showroom profits are being squeezed and online services are growing.

32.   Employment in the domestic energy business has declined all around the country, and one way Apache squeezes more profit from its fields is by reducing labor costs.

33.   Falling prices for many goods and a very low inflation rate are squeezing corporate profits, they note.

34.   Financial shares have also been hurt by concern profits could get squeezed by deregulation measures, analysts said.

35.   First of all, you need to decide if you have what it takes to squeeze profits out of lemons.

36.   For media executives, the big problem is that they have been resoundingly unsuccessful in squeezing a profit out of the Web.

37.   Gradually rising labor costs and a stronger dollar also squeezed profits.

38.   GM will attempt to squeeze more profit out of the new car by pushing more costs off on suppliers, analysts said.

39.   Hale said corporations are seeing their profits squeezed because the cost of keeping and training workers has been rising.

40.   He said that because rising labor costs could not be passed on in higher prices, profits were being squeezed.